I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.

It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.