“The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.”

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

“I have had a wonderful time but this wasn't it.”

“I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.”

“I must admit, I was born at an early age. ”

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”

“Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?”