I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

I do my best to love everybody

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

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.

Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.