My healthy blood was powerless to cure the sick blood of my beloved. That was beyond understanding. And so is death.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Truly listening, attentively, and with care, is one of the simplest and most kind gifts we can give anyone.

Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles—and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others.

Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'

The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third.

What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production.

A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

The nurses were all angels in my eyes.