I could have run after him. I could have asked politely for some clarification. But I didn’t I knew what I preferred, and that was – I didn’t want to know. Rather, I wanted to believe.

We were not sure how to receive them, even though they were our boys.

Above all, he said, white is a feeling.

Dreams are nervy things – all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.

I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why we write these things down, so we can move on.

We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

He said, 'Coach, I've trained too hard to lose.' To have that type of attitude is amazing.

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.