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

I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

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

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.

It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.