"His face is so calm, He shows no sign of stress or anything. Its as if he's saying, "No problem. Relax. I'm just going to beat you now. It's not going to hurt a bit.""

“The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.”

“The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.”

“When you're seventeen or eighteen, you bomb on in pre-season immediately, try to impress. But then at the end of pre-season because you were so fast at the beginning, your times aren't getting any better and it looks like you actually aren't getting fitter.”

Source : "Football Pre-Season Training". Interview with Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com. July 15, 2012.

“But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.”

“The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.”

Source : Charles Sala, Caspar David Friedrich (1994). “Caspar David Friedrich and Romantic Painting”, Vilo International

“If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.57, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

“I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?”

“Be of love a little more careful than of anything.”