There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.

Brooke Burke

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Herbert Spencer

Love happens in the strangest places at the strangest times.

Andrew Sturm

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

Frederick Pollock

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Eugene Delacroix

Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smile, and dark, merry eyes. She wore some kind of a fuzzy lavender pullover, and when she crossed her legs and lifted her guitar onto her lap, she had an interesting way of tucking the foot of the bottom leg back under her chair that made Hector feel melty. He looked away in self-preservation.

Lynne Rae Perkins

Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

George Vaillant

Homo homini monstrum

Victor Hugo

You can make anything by writing.

C.S. Lewis

Vielleicht gibt es ja gar keine tollen, wunderbaren Menschen. Und wir reden es uns für eine kurze Weile nur ein, dass der oder der toll und wunderbar ist, damit wir einen Grund haben, uns in ihn zu verlieben. Sozusagen ein Alibi für die Liebe.

Brigitte Blobel