“I never killed anyone with my tuba.”

You don’t ever lose your dream. You don’t give that up. I tell that to the players. If you don’t have dreams, you don’t have anything to live for.

I was 14 when I lost them [his front teeth]. The main thing was, we won that game, so I was the happiest. You hate to lose your teeth and the game, too.

There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility.

We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.

Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another.

Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.

Did they look like anyone we know? For example a cross between pippi longstocking and the wicked witch of the west would obviously give us marcie millar

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.

You have a right to have a feather duster. If anyone breaks in, you can make sure they’re really clean as they’re robbing your house.