- Many receive advice. Only the wise profit from it.
- 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.
- Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through, no matter what.
- 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.
- [on 'To Kill a Mockingbird'] It is and it isn't autobiographical. The trial, and the rape case charge that brings on the trial, are made out of a composite of such cases and charges. What I did present as exactly as I could was the clime and tone, as I remembered them, of the town in which I lived. From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
- Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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