Harper Lee

"Imagination is the first step toward creating something new."

"We must learn to listen more than we speak."

"The heart of a person reveals their true nature."

"Justice delayed is justice denied, but justice rushed is often injustice."

"To change the world, you must first change yourself."

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

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through."

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."

"The thing is, you don't ever understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

"Climb in my skin and walk around in it."

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

"You never really understand a person until you walk in their shoes."

"The most boring thing in the world, I believe, is a twelve-year-old girl."

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it."

"I would rather be a little brave than a lot right."

"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself."

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started doesn't mean we shouldn't try."

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow."

"Atticus was right. One time he said you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

"I think maybe it's like an iceberg. It looks one way from the top and quite another from the side."

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."

"There's a lot of ugly things in this world. Some run don't confront 'em, that's all."

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life."

"The main thing is, we shouldn't pay any attention to what people say about us."

"I'm going to have a time now, I haven't had time really in years."

"Courage is not a man with a gun. It's when you know you're licked but you try anyway."

"It's better to be silent than waste your breath on fools."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is understanding others."

"Real growing pains require you to accept loss."