I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

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

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

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches