As Kipling said, that’s another story...

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Something is wrong with me, it's something about me. it has to be me because all those people cannot have changed.

He was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being.

I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Macomb it's like leaving the world.

It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable.

When Henry handed her a cup of punch she whispered, "If you want to go on with the seniors or anything I'll be alright."Henry smiled at her. "You're my date, Scout.

(...) when a man's looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can find to defend himself, be it a stone or a stick of stove wood or a citizens' council.

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days.

New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.

My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.

It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.

I've always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.

You can't take life for granted.

The most effective 3D movies I have ever seen are the animated movies because they are designed.

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.