What Messi does is terrifying. It's indescribable magic. You can't analyze it.

To be a footballer means being a privileged interpreter of the feelings and dreams of thousands of people.

Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.

Letting go of its good players, like Özil, the ones who know how to play football – that did surprise me.

We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

I'm not saying I'm impervious to criticism.

I think we do need better training programs, we do need a way to get people from careers that are dead-end into new careers.

Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.

Period movies are just always a wonderful thing to work on.

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

Flattery will get you everywhere.

I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with a sort of fierce, awful affection.

I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.