“It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.”

“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”

“Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”

“what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.”

“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.”

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”

“Ah, if he could only die temporarily!”