Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

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.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

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

Mutual defiance made them alike.

Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.