"Eating without conversation is only stoking."

"I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts."

"Better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall."

"Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!"

"When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on."

"Trying is the first step towards failure."

"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."

"If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix..."

"Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even."

"Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years."

"There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them."

"I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath."