“She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.”

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

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.

There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.

The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.

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.

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.

Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

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

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.

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

And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

Life’s deep opportunities are found in our connection with people.  

Have the courage to believe in yourself and watch magical things start to happen in your life.  

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out and difficult.

If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner.

I now say to myself, ‘I trust the process of life’ to remind me that even in the darkest hours there is still light and possibility.

The value of a conversation with somebody could change your whole life.

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.