Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

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

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!

Envy is an insult to oneself.

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.

To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.