“It’s kind of poetic to know that I’m not going to be here forever. No one is. I walk through graveyards, and I read obits. I’m not morbid about it. I just acknowledge life passing and all of us being here for a little while, and it’s kind of beautiful…

“Happiness is not by chance but by choice.”

“We labor into life and we labor out of life. All of us are born with life and death walking next to us.”

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, in spite of ourselves.”