“Things are never as bad as they seem.”

“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.”

“There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.”

“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.”

“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”

“Atticus, you must be wrong." "How's that?" "Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong. . ." "They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "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.”

“Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.”