“A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse”

“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire aknowledge of other people's business.”

“A MAN FEAREDA man feared that he might find an assassin;Another that he might find a victim.One was more wise than the other.”

“Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.”

“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”

“A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.”

“Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question..”