You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

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

You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.

Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born with a divine sense of perception. As we grow older, the world closes in on us, and we gradually lose the freshness of viewpoint that we had as children. That is why I think children should get to know this country while they are young.