When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

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.

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

Even if love were considered a mental illness, that would not prevent it from being a pleasant one.

One of the unique aspects of the Bible is that it is primarily a story illustrated by teaching and not primarily teaching illustrated by story.

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.

Political correctness kills discussion.

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.