That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.