People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

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.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.