Faith

“You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.”
― George Burns

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

“How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows