“An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.”

“The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.”

“A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.”

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walk out.”

“When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' less somebody else can understand.”

“Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.”

“In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause.”