While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

When you think and act opposite to love, you find yourself powerless and life becomes a frightening nightmare.

When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

I had to put it on the line, but it was my Tour to win and mine to lose.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.

You know who you remind me of? The kid cop in Lethal Weapon 3. You know, the one who says, 'it's my twenty-first birthday today', and right away you know he's dead meat?

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.