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

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.

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.

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

When we have clarity on our destination and are grounded in our current reality, we are equipped to make the best decisions possible.

His leap was exact, mathematical. The initial arc - head tucked between taut arms that spread out gradually like wings - was as graceful as a swan dive.

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.

Until Scrubs, I didnt have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.

We firmly believe in Trafiguras unparalleled capacity to extract the full value of the Sudeste Superport.

In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.