"My Nan had a plastic hip put in, but I thought she should have replaced it with a Slinky, 'cause if she fell down the stairs again..."

“New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.”

“Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.”

Source : Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.22, Turner Publishing Company

“Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!”

“It's rough to go through life with your contents looking as if they settled during shipping.”

“People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.”

Source : Vivian Vande Velde (2003). “Being Dead”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Fantasy isn't something you run out of.”

“There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.”

“A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.”