I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

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

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

I decline to accept the end of man.