Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!"

Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

To begin again, every failure provides experience and opens the door of opportunity.

What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.

I'm willing to grind, endure & suffer to wake that beast within me, to grow, accomplish & win.

For what is a dream if not love first felt and what is mystery if not life itself

When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.

I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen a lot of great players working at the Maccabi Games.

Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.

Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity.

It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.