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

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.

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

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.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.

the only revenge worth having is success.

With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.

Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?

People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.