Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.

Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

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

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.

In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.