"In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower."

"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."

"We must always have old memories and young hopes."

"Mighty hard to tell the people you love you鈥檙e a failure."

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

"Guess again."

"A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists."

"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy]."

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."

"Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy."

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."