I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.

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.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.

summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat;it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.

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.

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.