Bessie-isms:

*The Nazis and Stalin built labor camps to imprison and oppress people. You have built your own prison in your mind, which keeps you miserable and enslaved. Are you evil, or foolish, and more importantly, are you too lazy to escape and be free?

*The parent who constantly pretends to be someone they are not, has no moral right to expect their children or friends to be honest about who they are either.  Read that again.

Quotable:

Good humor makes all things more tolerable.

Henry Ward Beecher