Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

Death is the final wake-up call.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.