Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.