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.

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

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

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

Things are never as bad as they seem.