"Dona€?t you a€?black or whitea€? me."

"She heard and mentally recorded people's words in the same way she copied words she read. Could she ever hear what a person did not say?"

"Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?"

"Do not try to solve all life's problems at once -- learn to dread each day as it comes."

"Any woman with a purse that big's bound to have somethin' in it that I don't wanna know about."

"Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place."

"Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons."

"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers."

"The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary."

"If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further."

"The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors."

"Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them."