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.

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.

You only become truly rich the day you possess something that money cannot buy.

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.

People are still saying gr isn't as much fun as it used to be? They've never ADD'd Quotes, clearly!

Of course she’s right. How bad are things when your clinically insane mother is more rational than you are?

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.

It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles - preferably of his own making - in order to triumph.

Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.

Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.