"Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here."

"Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it."

"It's a wonder that any of us are alive, considering what we've been through."

"I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's an honest man and decent and not a nigger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a white man from dust, a nigger from mud, then th…"

"My father was a farmer. My mother was a farmer's wife. And I'm a farmer's son. And I'm proud of it."