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.

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.

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

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.

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.