I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Things are always better in the morning.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

All Advertising is essentially a promise of future happiness.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

Men are never brave, are they?

Puerto Rico lacks resources, but that's not the fault of the U.S.

Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.