“Do not resent growing old, many are denied the privilege.”

“Lose an hour in the morning and you'll be looking for it all day.”

“Better be quarrelling than lonesome.”

“A man loves his sweetheart the most his wife the best but his mother the longest.”

“Two thirds of help is to give courage.”

“Every invalid is a physician.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”