Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The best way out is always through.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Effectiveness of life is not in self aggrandising

I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

I would rather fight with my pain or end up with self destruction.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become.

When I arrive at our training ground at Borussia Dortmund, everybody could hear just that a few seconds before I can actually be seen. Everybody knows it's me. I love to hear the machine working.

The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.