"By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun."

"In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world."

"I row after health like a waterman..."

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."

"In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love."

"Regimen is superior to medicine."

"Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears."

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

"I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other."

"A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim."

"Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?"

"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction."

"True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain."

"We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be."

"Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us."

"Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are."

"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice."

"Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort."