Let the dead bury the dead...

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.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience.

Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.

I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd.

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.

The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.

If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.