"Puritanism...helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others."

"Limited expectations yield only limited results."

"What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?"

"The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now."

"Joy is not a thing, it is in us."

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings."

"Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do."

"Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want."

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

"An old man is twice a child."

"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."