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

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

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.

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.

I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

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