Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.