A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...

Amid the pointing and the horror, the clean flame.

It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.

Maybe, it is easier to forget the past, than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons, why men forget their prehuman ancestor.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Write the words on your heart.

They wouldn’t have understood if they found him crying, when he woke and remembered all at once that he had once had a wife and child, so they never found him this way.

I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

But just get through this day. That's all you have to do.

Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.