Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

and so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

If you think it ain’t dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way, by yourself, in the night, you try it once – you’ll see.

That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain’t no disgrace.

She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever.

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.

You have to grab the goal, visualise your vision, excel in excellence and then become distinct in distinction.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

I can live with losing, I can't live without taking my chance.

Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths

I've seen 'karma' slap people in the face. You have to be good to people. It really does come around.

Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.

The egotist is next door to a fanatic.

I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To me, the Bible is a manifesto, a guide, a love letter, a story.

There's a technical reason why I think that frame rate is weird and it has to with your brain's ability to scan beyond a certain rate. The point is I find it looks weird.