Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

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.

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

Lady, you have just become a wanted woman. I suggest you start running.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn't believe in our election system and believes that there's rampant voter fraud.

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

All actors are incredibly insecure.

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife, as a lover, as a daughter.