“Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.”

“Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?”

“Oxygen is an accident. Breath is intentional.”

“Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

“The earth had more oxygen in the past than it does now. Now you kids are going to be told in textbooks that the earth had no oxygen at the beginning, when life was evolving, called a "reducing atmosphere." That is baloney! […] It could not have evolved with oxygen, or without oxygen! But, if you double the air pressure and increase oxygen, not only does your hemoglobin take on oxygen, like it's supposed to, your plasma will get oxygen saturated, which means you could run hundreds of miles, without getting tired! Adam and Eve didn't need a car. They could run to grandma's.”

“Execution is the game. If you don't execute your ideas, nobody notices your contribution.”

“Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.”

“When you're retired, you get into your routines and other people, even so-called loved ones, become a strain.”

“Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

“She had
become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the
air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.”