I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.