"A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along."

"Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy."

"A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart."

"I was simply furnishing a home. I love music ... and I don't think a $130,000 indoor-outdoor stereo system is extravagant."

"Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience."

"How high must we build these walls Around the fields of paradise?"

"I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs and forty-two-hundred hits."

"Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces."

"Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken."

"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."