Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.