Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

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

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view ... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for.

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between.

Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

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

All religious believers should be licensed to make sure that they are competent to hold opinions and viewpoints and that they don't believe in just any old thing, such as creationism or a flat tax.

The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if I was going to create a pocket watch, I wanted it to be very modern. I didn't want to do old-fashioned.

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

I trust the people.

I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

Every solution breeds new problems.

Theres no use in comparing ones feelings between one day and the next you must allow a reasonable interval for the direction of change to show itself.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.

There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this.

Death is better than slavery.

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

Most people just see ski racing during the Olympics.

In the western world, you can go out, take a boat trip to the Caribbean and so forth, and buy good things with your own money. But the Russian people with rubles cannot do that.

Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

I'm very Italian, so I love cooking for friends. Whether it's Valentine's Day and my boyfriend and girlfriends' boyfriends are away, or someone's in town, or someone had a baby, I cook.

It is a very humbling honor to be selected as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

A fool and his money are soon parted