"-Fiona, this is my mate, Frank Begbie. Or Franco. Or Beggars. Or the Beggar Boy. Or the Generalissmo. Or Psychotic Bullying Prick."

"Same rules apply."

"There's always been a little bit of the crusader in me, and you need dragons to slay, without the conflict and the controversy I think that what I managed to do less, and I take a great deal of pride in the accomplishment."

"I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times. And I think that whatever part Playboy played and that I managed to play in terms of the sexual revolution came out of what I saw in the negative part of that life and tried to change things in some positive way so that people could choose alternate personal ways of living their lives."

"It's not time to worry yet"

"There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."

"You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't."

"We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple."

"I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout"

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

"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."

"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."

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

"You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change. -Atticus Finch"

"With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable."

"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."

"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents."

"Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."

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

"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."

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

"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."

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

"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."