I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.

I'm falling into you This dream could come true And it feels so good falling into you from If You Asked Me To

Euthanasia is legal in Hollywood. They just kill the film if it doesn't succeed immediately.

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

Whatever makes a child want to glue macaroni on a paper plate and paint the assemblage and see it on the refrigerator - that has always been strong in me.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Fate is a manifestation of natural causes. That's it. It's not a conscious entity. It has no plan.