Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones.

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.