“It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”

“Life is random, neither fair nor unfair.”

“In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.”

“Money followed; it never led.”

“No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

“I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.”

“I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.”