I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

I love myself when I am laughing.

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

Love, I find, is like singing.