The clouds may drop down titles and estates and wealth may seek us but wisdom must be sought.
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.
If money titles meant anything I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year then it's been a good year.
It is not titles that honor men but men that honor titles.
I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over what are you left with? When I retire I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an honest man.
To me freedom entitles you to do something not to not do something.
For me titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try they can be really hard to repair. Or worse if the author thinks they pop out perfect but the publishing house does not agree it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial but an indispensable experience which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
One of the greatest titles in the world is parent and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
People don't follow titles they follow courage.
I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.
Were I called on to define very briefly the term Art I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation however accurate of what is in Nature entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.