Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do.
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports. . . . When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.
Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.
Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper than feelings. We believe, whether we see or not. We believe, whether we feel or not.
That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.
If speed one day kills me, don't be sad because I was smiling