If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's globe except what's under water, and that's dirt too. It's dirt makes the grass grow. A diamond ain't a thing in the world but a piece of dirt that got awful hot. And God-a-Mighty picked up a handful of dirt and blew on it and made you and me and George Washington and mankind blessed in faculty and apprehension. It all depends on what you do with the dirt. That right?

Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.