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.

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.

Thoughts can hurt like real pain.

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

Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!

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

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.