"When you don’t become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the fulfillment that comes from living by instinct."

“Changing your life does not always mean that you stop doing certain things. It may mean that you start doing certain other things. What you really want to do is nurture the attitude that you are open to learning more about yourself. Accepting more about yourself. This is what will inspire you to do something new.”

“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.”

Source : Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.42, Grove Press

“There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely”

“Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.”

“My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.”

“I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.”

“When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.”

“FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.”

Source : "Sepp Blatter interview: The FIFA president on Qatar, Brazil and billionaire owners". Interview with Philippe Auclair, www.mirror.co.uk. September 22, 2013.