The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.