As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.