“Truth is a letter from courage!”

Love, I find, is like singing.

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

Mystery is the essence of divinity

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

Scars are beautiful when we see them as glorious reminders that we courageously survived.

Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

What an old maid I’m getting to be. Lacking the courage to be in love with death!

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.

Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.