If he’s not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets—

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.

There can be no light without shadow.

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention out of his experience should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.