By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

I can't believe that I'm on the Olympic team.

This fathering is a man's second chance at living.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

No one did what I did last season and for this, I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player award?

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

God never sends us more than we can handle.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way.

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.