“There is prodigious fear in seeking loose spirits”

“A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.”

“Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she'll wake when she tires of it. A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.”

“Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.”

“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”

“Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away.But if you can't walk away?I guess that's when it's tough.”

“It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves”