“Life goes on, even when you think it can't. Even when you don't especially want it to.”

“Words strike the air and the mind, they act on the senses and on the soul.”

“Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.”

“The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.”

“The wrong people always worry. The people who are the real problem never worry about anything.”

“I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.”

“Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the most at that moment.”

“Why should one bother about the ultimate fate of the universe? One answer to this question is similar to the answer to the question about climbing Mount Everest: because the problem exists. It is in the nature of the human mind to seek incessantly new frontiers of knowledge to explore.”