“There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt,Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson”

“In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.”

“People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.”

“I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .”

“I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.”

“By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?”

“That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.”