"When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things."

"Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter."

"Mourning never really ends, only as time goes on, as we do our work, it may erupt less frequently."

"Luxuries are never so comfortable as are the familiar, ordinary things of home."

"If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"

"Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected."

"Meet the sunrise with confidence."

"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."

"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."

"A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs."

"My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit."