Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

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.

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

To be weird! That is my goal!

There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

There is one fold and one shepherd.

Where there is division, there is sin.

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

Funny how someone telling you not to do something can talk you into it.