I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man.

Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.

We often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also.

Be careful about a policy generated with enthusiasm in the rush of a moment. It usually doesn't turn out well.

New York is breaking my heart. I’ve often said that it’s like having a really interesting boyfriend suddenly becoming really, really into wine, and having to have endless conversations about it.

Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.

Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.

We are each a gift, exactly as we are in this moment, with no improvements!

I learned from the git-go in the joint to get in touch with the soft, nurturing side of myself, the feminine side.