"To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule. To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing."

“I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.”

“It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.”

Source : Paul Ricoeur (2016). “Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

“Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.”

“I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.”

“The only possible regret I have is the feeling that I will die without having played enough tennis.”

Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

“League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.”

“Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.”

“You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.”