“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”

“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”

“As I got older and things got more fixed and I couldn’t do anything about them and I had health problems – a couple of heart attacks, long hospital stays, this, that, the other – when things get settled like that, you make a deal, or you don’t, and that…

“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…

“God is like, ‘I’m with you up to about thirty-eight.’ After that, God says, ‘If you want to stay, you can stay. But I’m moving on.’”