It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.