To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.