Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.