There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.

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.

Whoever is present in your spring would more than likely have respected your winter.

We work to firstly realize our hidden potentials.

Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

The reason I started to do comics for kids, the real reason is because it worked for me.

There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.

I never got a job I didn't create for myself.

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists