Atticus, he was real nice. Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!
The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!
Tears are words that need to be written.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
Try a little harder to be a little better.
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.