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

Faith hasn't got no eyes, but she's long-legged.

every heart has its graveyard.

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.

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.