“hard work never killed anyone... but why take a chance?”

“I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?”

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”

“But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.”

“Find your happiness, Miss. It's out there, for anyone with the courage to follow it, no matter how many twists and turns the path might take.”

“It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.”

“Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.”