“Life is so good, and it gets better every day.”

“Things will be alright. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn't anything that I would change about my life.”

“George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.”-George’s Grandmother.”

“that's what God does. He moves the wind across the water or leaves it still. He can do all that. That's God doing that and He can do it on any lake that He wants to.”

“A great library contains the diary of the human race.”

“We must be so heavenly minded that we are compelled to be of earthly good!”

“I said, "The children wanted to know what life was like."Junior said, “They [the children] don’t have any idea how rough it was.” (George responds)“Or how good it was either! People forget that a picture ain’t made from just one color. Life ain’t all good or all bad. It’s full of everything.”