"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."
"It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you."
"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."