Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

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

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.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

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

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

He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

Things are always better in the morning.

It's not necessary to tell all you know.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

I am not proud that i know so much. I am humbled that there is so much to learn, and i haven't been able to understand the little i have been priviledged to know.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

Was the Buddha married? His wife would say, "Are you just going to sit around like that all day?"

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

If you want a particular behavior from someone else, try spotlighting those times when he or she is already doing it.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.