...but before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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.

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

Personal power is the ability to enter into different planes of reality.

You’re a good guy, Cam.” “No, I’m not.” He exhaled deeply and his breath was warm against my cheek. “I’m only good with you.

But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.

You are the Atma. You are permanent. The physical is not permanent. The physical is not the Atma.