More quotes by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
"With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable."
"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."