We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.

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.

Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason?

When the leader goes wayward, the organization goes wayward.

Nothing gets easier but our abilities get better.

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

You have the economic vocabulary turning into vocabulary of deception.

So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film).

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.