A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.

I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.