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.
Harper Lee

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
Harper Lee

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
Harper Lee

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.
Harper Lee

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Harper Lee

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee

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.
Harper Lee

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

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.
Harper Lee


You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper Lee

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Harper Lee