Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

The truth will lead me to all.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.