You can't lie a lifetime, son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you

Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you.

Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

Erith, " he said and bowed his head. Her blue-black hair hung to her hips in soft waves.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

Suicide is not a remedy

Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.

I think we have got to get the Republicans and the Democrats to get back to what I call the fiscal conservative, the issues that drive the tea parties.

Some of our most successful businessmen in US grew up in orphanages. They were well treated, and they learned discipline. They learned right or wrong, and they have wonderful careers.

If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing.

For did my dreams come true when I looked at you. And maybe too, if you would believe, you too might be overjoyed, over loved, over me.

It is not night when I do see your face.