“It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.”

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Everyone lives by selling something.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It’s that they stay out all night looking for it.

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

I have to keep testing myself.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.