Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

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

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.

I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.

In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies.

It's really boring to talk about what you ate and have 48,000 fans listen to you. It's awful.

Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.

If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them.

We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's what I love.

I didn’t want or expect this. But I couldn’t resist you.

There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.