"A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers."

"It is not so much our friend's help that helps us as the confidence of their help."

"The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully."

"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."

"Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily."

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

"The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life."

"When kids hit the age of one, they're like miniature drunks. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh, then two minutes later they're crying. They drool."

"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun."

"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes."

"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat"

"Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper."