Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.

If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

If one day I have to leave Barcelona, probably the first thing I will look into is Arsenal

You have to fight for your dream, but you also have to feel fortunate for what you have.

I think you have to be grateful to those who have helped you.

If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.

Best defender I have played against? Carles Puyol

If I could reincarnate as another player, I might want to reincarnate as Thierry Henry at the top of his game.

What makes a good captain is someone that can lead and someone who dies for their team.

Once a gunner, always a gunner

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do

I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me." "It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

What we call evil is the absence of Light, of love, in all cases.

[It's] not one thing this year, one thing another year.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.