“Once learn how Nature gardens for herself, and you will be able to spare yourself a good deal of trouble.”

“In the first inning, there is always something wrong. I hit somebody, I walk somebody, there's a blooper. But that's part of the game. You have to be able to control yourself and make good pitches to get yourself out of trouble.”

“How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.”

“Until you deal with your real personal issues, you'll never be able to control yourself.”

“I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.”

“I still haven’t learned to deal with situations like that very well — but I don’t think you should, because then you’re accepting defeat. It’s good to be stubborn, to be hard on yourself.”

“Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.”

“You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.”

“I most earnestly beg you to spare no trouble or necessary expense in getting these.”

“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”