“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”

“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”

“True life lies in laughter, love and work.”

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”

“It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”

“The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Re...”

“But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.”