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

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?

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.

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue.

Are we praying?" "If you have to ask, you probably aren't.

When you complain, you explain pain for no gain. Endure and balance yourself through the pain, be hopeful and persist to the end.

I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.

We see not our own backs.

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

There was something sweet in watching him pull himself back together, restoring the façade he wore for the world while I knew at least a little of the man beneath it.