Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.

Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Have you not succeeded? Continue! Have you succeeded? Continue!

Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.

You are one with your skis and nature. This is something that develops not only the body but the soul as well, and it has a deeper meaning for a people than most of us perceive.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain.

My cup was already brimming before I met him —after it runneth over.

So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?

What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him.

I would have remembered the good stuff. Nobody ever remembers the good stuff.