When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.

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

Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.

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

Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Things are always better in the morning.

There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.