It's a matter of priorities. Do you want to win, or would you like to sleep? Do you want to win, or would you like to take a day off?

I think when people say Madrid are playing well and Barca are not and vice-versa, or when one wins the Champions League, it's better than the other, I don't think that makes sense. Everyone takes...

Anything can happen in a fight.

Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.

At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can...

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

My mom sent me money for a car, but the cops impounded it because I had no insurance.

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.

It is easier to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

When you're all dressed up and no place to go.

Time brings all things to pass.

He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Everything put together is made to fall apart.

the lessons are best when the pain is worse

The end is never worth the beginning.

... you only get one chance at sharing a soul, but that once was enough if it was the right soul.

We spent all our lives for things and not dedicate the things that await us.

There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness unblocks the future. {p.225}

The sun from far gives life. But get close to it and it burns anything down to ashes