God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

There's never an end for the sea.

Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.

Trends of the times be damned.

…This remains the great deficiency of literature: its imitation of nature cannot prepare you for the main events. For the main events, only experience will answer.

I don't believe in God, don't believe in the devil. Unless you want to count my mother. She might be Satan's sister, I suppose.

I know every fight could be my last fight, and if that happens, that's not just a health issue, but I'll be knocked off that king's stool.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.