“The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.”

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”

“He was not pouting. 'Yes, you were.' He was not doing a very good job of keeping his inner thoughts inner, either.”

“The way the animals live, everybody envies them, because look, a cat, when it walks--did you ever see a cat making an aesthetic mistake. Did you ever see a badly formed cloud? Were the stars ever misarranged? When you watch the foam breaking on the seashore, did it ever make a bad pattern? Never. And yet we think in what we do, we make mistakes.”

“He had no idea why he was thinking with dramatic pauses now. He just was.”

“Would-a Could-a Should-a Never Did-a”