Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Love I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Anytime you see somebody keeping a secret, that's symptomatic that something's wrong with the society around them. That means there's discrimination or worse.

For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

the first thing I did when I made the decision to kill myself was to stop dieting. Let them dig a wider hole.

When GOD is our deepest pleasure we display Him as our highest treasure.

The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

I cannot teach anybody how to cook. All I can do is show them, share methods with them.

This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.

America’s true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire.

I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.