Boo and I walked up the steps to the porch. His fingers found the doorknob. He gently released my hand, opened the door, enter inside, and shut the door behind him. I never saw him again.

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.

We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

Let your discomfort and pain push you into something new.

Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

The home is where part of the family waits until the others are through with the car.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.