Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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.

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.

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.

Being” is far more important than “doing.” When we are what we should be inside, we will bring forth fruit.

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.

I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.

Perhaps the street photographer has been replaced by the security camera.

I love highlighting. A good highlighter works on everyone.

When men I have dated over the years whined about, ‘Oh, you make no time for me’ – see ya! I just dumped them. I don’t need that pressure in my life.

And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.

God has many ways that He might use to achieve His ends, but His wisdom determined the best way to accomplish them.