My heart had been touched by him, battered by him, cradled by him as the days passed. He was cruel without meaning to be yet he was kind, and I needed him too much to let myself want him

And I decided I'd rather love too much than not at all.

But that’s life right? It’s just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else gets a four, or a ten. It’s all in the draw and how you play it.

Strange, how we often hate the ones who save us and love the ones that are like poison.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

Success is the joy found in the experiences unveiled in the pursuit and progressive realisation of a desired goal or dream.

So, you invite a wild rabbit living in Italy to a party on the island of Crete. What’s it supposed to do, swim there? Its little tux would get wet.

Even the most thorough change happens once choice at a time

For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment.

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.

You are not living, you are surviving.

I was going to get my teeth whitened, but I said, "I'll just get a tan instead."

The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.