Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wildes books in a bookshop makes me smile.

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

Morality is probably the last thing one can learn from football.

In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.

The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.