There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.