What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.

There is no reason to be alive if you can't do the deadlift!

A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.

Gratitude and fear can't stand the sight of each other.

But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.