“The child needs a helping hand or he’ll grow up to be an angry young man some day.”

We can’t build our dreams on suspicious minds.

Tomorrow will be too late, it’s now or never.

If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.

Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.

Envy someone an’ it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

Once I catch you and the kissing starts, a team of wild horses couldn’t tear us apart.

People think you’re crazy if you talk about things they don’t understand.

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.

Friends are people you can talk to, without words when you have to.

I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

Do what’s right for you, so long as it don’t hurt no one.

Make me feel at home, if you really care, scratch my back and run your pretty fingers through my hair.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.

Let go of anger let go of frustration; Let go of anything that resembles eternal damnation.

Frightened people become angry people – as history teaches us again and again.

Me in 2019: “I’m tired and angry, but somebody should be.” Me in 2021: “I’m tired.”

He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you could live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.