I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.

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

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

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

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

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.

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.