A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.