I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Watching him walk off was very nearly as absorbing as observing his approach. He walked as all men ought to walk, with a decided swagger to his shoulders.

The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape.

The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

When I'm home in New York, I box every day.

I led the way toward the crowd, trying to look casual, like, Fly? Me? Nah.

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

The Ultimate expression of Humility comes when we control our senses.

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.