Quotes about Transition

The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.

A man going uphill may be at the same level as another man going down hill; but they are facing different ways and have different destinies. Our world, passing out of the old Paganism of Greece and Rome towards the consummation of Christendom and a Catholic civilization from which we all derive, is the very negation of the same world leaving the light of its ancestral religion and sliding back into the dark.

The reason the Dead do not return nowadays is the boredom of it.

To arrive in a city like Milan as a young man was a huge challenge.

As a young man, I had a strong faith in God. It dwindled and I pretty much abandoned it when I went to college. Basically, what I tell everybody is what took over my life was my pride.

For a kid that just played for Oviedo, to then going to play for a team like Real Madrid, it felt fantastic. But being taken out of my family home and moving away alone, into the residence Madrid have for young players, it was a bit difficult. But as time passed, I got used to it.

It's tricky to take a book of short stories and turn it into a feature film.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.