[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.

There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.