your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing.

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.

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

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.