“A statement of truth, and that is: Everything I have accomplished is Thanks to the Lord above, and without him my success would have been impossible.”

“..when I'm at my weakest that is when the Lord is strongest and closest to me. This is hard to go through, but it would be impossible without Him”

“I would have been glad if it had been the Lord's will to let one of my children live.”

“So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.”

“I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.”

“I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.”