Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.