People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

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.

Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.

There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.