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.

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.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

I find a source of love in everything that breathes, moves, touches, whispers, smiles. I wake up everyday to search and find love in the wild dream of loneliness.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.

The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.

Swag mastah from Doncastah!

Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.

I'm a person who tries not to have regrets.

Let us open wide the windows of our hearts, that each family member may feel welcome and 'at home.

I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.