The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

I refuse to give up on love and I refuse to lay down and die.

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.

A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.

There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.

We can't all come and go by bubble!

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.