“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.”

Things are never as bad as they seem.

We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with 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.

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

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.

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.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.

You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

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

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.

Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

True strength is the courage to ask for help.

Courage is grace under pressure.