I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

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.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.

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

But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.