Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.

Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let everybody like me, why, I’ll give you anything in the world, and if I haven’t got it, why, I’ll go for to get it. I don’t want to be mean. I don’t want to be lonely. For Jesus’ sake, Amen.