Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that.
The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.
Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.
The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.
It isn't enough for an umpire to merely know what he's doing. He has to look as though he knows what he's doing, too.
Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.