we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.

...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.

The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from a garden feeder, and when it was all gone, he gazed up at Dusty with an adoration that could not have been much less than the love with which the angels regard God.

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.