"When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does."
"The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?"
"...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?"
"Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it."
"My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes."
"Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing."