People don't want advice...only corroboration.

But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again.

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.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?