"Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how."

"If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived."

"The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience."

"As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation."

"A courageous heart knows that every choice we make paints the canvas of our life."

"It is a humble truth that in the arithmetic of human affection, the more you give, the more you retain — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Love is love's reward."

"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."