Don't make everyone know about your sadness.

They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.

Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his life. While there remains even a plaintive memory, a person cannot be cut off, dead. And he thought, “It’s a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man’s life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward stillness.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.