He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound..

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?

Practical management of your time includes taking responsibility of your choices.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

You should never form judgments from front page headlines. As with a contract, the fine print on the inside pages should be carefully studied.

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.