Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.

When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake.

I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.

Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

I live for my death. While it is important how you perceive me now, It is more imperative how generations to come would perceive me

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

Reader, I married him.

There must be another way, if only because there has to be.

I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.

I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought.

We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the magistrate is good and honest, and to have an understanding wife and bright children.