Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Have you not succeeded? Continue! Have you succeeded? Continue!

Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.

You are one with your skis and nature. This is something that develops not only the body but the soul as well, and it has a deeper meaning for a people than most of us perceive.

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.

Forgiveness is the best gift of love and kindness that we can give to our enemies.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole.

I think if there's anything that can help fat kids get out of the house and anybody to move, it's a positive thing.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

A person is as young as their dreams and as old as their cynicism.