Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

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 reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.

No Student can stand the Gruel of Sports Training unless she has a Passion for Fame.

Your mindset brings together your attitude, perceptions, experience, interpretations, opinions, beliefs, values, and understanding to determine how you think, act, walk, talk, behave, and engage.

I don't want to think my life as a career.

If you do talk dirty, make sure that you enunciate because there's nothing more embarrassing than having to repeat yourself.

Do not go through life; grow through life.

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.

How about this?" I said, because now it was the principle of the thing. "I'm sorry, jackass.

More rationale decreases subjectivity.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.