To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
