Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to.

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 sea was my first home...Now that I had nowhere else to go, this was the last place I felt safe.

For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

Plus, humor ws a good way to hide the pain. And if that didn't work, there was always Plan B. Run aaway. Over and over.

Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.