They can't hurt you unless you let them.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

In my mind it takes a special kind of courage to risk your life in another country, for your own country. The men and women who came back and spoke out were a special kind of hero.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

The last matches had hurt our self-confidence, you could see that. We were nervous at first. But the 1-0 freed us up and I think we played a pretty good match after that.

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.