We can't always have our druthers.

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.

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

I felt that what is personal is political.

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

All of North Korea is a jail.

It's good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.

Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.

It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.

So quick bright things come to confusion.​​​​​​