The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -!" I dragged him to the window and pointed. "No it's not," he said. "It's snowing.

This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.

Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.

We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. "Yawl write, hear?" he bawled after us.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

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