Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

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

Things are always better in the morning.

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

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

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

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

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

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.

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

When we walk along the beach and feel the sand beneath our toes and then the surf sends small waves to gently caress our feet

I got a horse for my wife. I thought it was a fair swap.

I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.

There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.

Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There's so much I don't understand.

Until you love yourself, you will never know who you really are and you won’t know what you’re really capable of

My wife doesn't like Football but she watches it just for Messi.

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.