Harper Lee

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

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

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.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.