You get born and you try this and you don't know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

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

There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.