It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

In life you can either follow your fears or be led by your values, by your passions.

Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

We are not loved because we are valued; we are valued because we are loved.

All of life is the exercise of risk.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.