“A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.”

“One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.”

“How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?”

“We’re human beings and the sun is the sun — how can it be bad for you? I think we should all get sun and fresh air. I don’t think anything that is natural can be bad for you — it’s really good to have at least 15 minutes of sun a day.”

“Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.”

“I'm just saying -- you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.”

“There's nothing wrong with being a loser. It just depends how good you are at it.”

“Boys do tell you how they really feel. I think you just have to be in the right place at the right time or maybe be the right person”

“Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than evil — but circumstances and associates can step up the bad and reduce the good. I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency — you may say goodness — of the human being.”

“What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?”