We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. "Yawl write, hear?" he bawled after us.

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.

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines

The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.

I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.

If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.

Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.

...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things.