Words worth keeping

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!

I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.

Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father’s right," she said. "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

I decided as long as I'm going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.I was a survivor, and I was strong.I would not be weak, or helpless again I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Well-read people are less likely to be evil.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.