Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Good to evil seems evil

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

But no man's a hero to himself.

Beware the autumn people

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Swarming its own shadows, the dust filtered over the tents.

Shut. Up, " June squealed. "You have a date with that guy?" She giggled and covered her mouth. "Shut up, shut up, shut up! Tell me everything.""I can't do both, " I pointed out.

I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk.

Achievement is not important, attempt is...!

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

We are all more capable than we think we are.

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

I am thrilled - I can't stress that enough - thrilled when I see kids getting active.

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.

I'm not a Twitterer, I'm not a twerker, I'm not a Facebooker. I am a ... nothin' ... I'm old school.