“Do you think your Mother and I should have liv'd comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married?”

“Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts, and pray long prayers?”

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”

“Had your mother not been so well-organized, so simple, so virtuous and so resourceful, I would not have been what I am today.”

“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”

“You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be re-inforced through out our neigbourhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply your self, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for-self by your self, and then you can do things for other people. But that's what I had to do, I had to do for-self.”

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”

“I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.”

“I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.”