Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

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.

You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.

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

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.