Harper Lee

"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. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. "

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

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