But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.
I do my best to love everybody... I’m hard put, sometimes- baby, 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.
After ten forevers Dr. Reynolds returned.
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ‘em get your goat. Try fightin’ with your head for a change. -Atticus Finch.
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.
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
It’s not necessary to tell all you know.
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.
I try to give’em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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.
It’s not time to worry yet.
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
When you’re at the top, there’s only one way to go.