I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

If 90% of success in life is showing up, the other 10% depends on what you're showing up for.

The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.

I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.

Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.