...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

Things are always better in the morning.

It's not necessary to tell all you know.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

It's funny how things work out.Trouble is, I'm still not laughing.

The point, ' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

TODD!" I shout again -And he looks at me -And I hear my name in his Noise -And I know it -I know it in my heart -Right now -Todd Hewitt -There's nothing we can't do toge

I'd hate to have a kid like me.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?

One of the lowest points in my life was when I was diagnosed and combated with severe ulcerative colitis which is severe ulcers in you colon that bleed.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

Those whose hearts are pure are temples of the Holy Spirit.

Next? Growing up to be Clint Eastwood, I hope.