(...) when a man's looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can find to defend himself, be it a stone or a stick of stove wood or a citizens' council.

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

Something is wrong with me, it's something about me. it has to be me because all those people cannot have changed.

He was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being.

I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Macomb it's like leaving the world.

As Kipling said, that’s another story...

It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable.

When Henry handed her a cup of punch she whispered, "If you want to go on with the seniors or anything I'll be alright."Henry smiled at her. "You're my date, Scout.

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days.

The best way to prepare for life is acombination of formal traditional education, reading, seminars, and workshops, coupled with experience as well as tapping into the knowledge of experienced people.

Disagreeing with someone does not mean that they have to be enemies or opponents.

Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could begin learning which could be broken and when.

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

I wanted the world to know where I was from. I wanted to say to the world, "We gotcha." America gotcha.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

She didn’t judge him or hate him for things that weren’t his fault. She accepted him and that was the greatest miracle of all.