Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham): As we are all dying, why waste a single moment’s thought, by being angry at another? Being trapped in this dying state is already a physical sickness. Being angry is to add...

  Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham):     Justice can take time to be served, with each ‘battle’ crucial for the ‘war’. Even each subsequent defeat, that is less of a defeat than the previous, it...

  Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham):     You can never really know someone unless you can read his or her mind, to know how he or she thinks and feels. That is when you might have more understanding than bewilderment,...

  Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham):   Human courts of law run upon imperfect laws written by imperfect humans, presided over by imperfect judges, imperfect jury members and imperfect lawyers, who interpret the law and...

  Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham):   What does it mean to be ladylike? Simply by being in a dress? How about being gentle(womanly) in thought, word and deed, unlike the old lady skewed in her perception, and harsh in...

  Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham): The best fight is the one walked away from; not the one that hurt anyone, even if it is someone else. The best wars are those that never started, and those that...

  Thoughts from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham): No, don’t shoot any birds at all, mockingbirds or not – not for fun, or for sports. To do so is to mock the birds shot, to cheapen their lives, to see them to be of...

  The following few posts are with thoughts inspired by ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee (as adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham). Above is a key quote from the book, and a still from the movie version. In these troubled times, all who feel ‘troubled’ by other...

#37: Wisdom Quotes Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.       [1] Wisdom is the knowledge of the application of eternal truths to life. – Tolstoy [2] A scholar knows many thing, but for most part things of an unnecessary and...

#36: Wisdom Quotes Below are quotes that resonate, from Leo Tolstoy’s ‘A Calendar Of Wisdom’.       [1] Act during the day so that you can sleep soundly at night, and in your youth so that you can have a calm old age. – Indian proverb [2] If your own faith is weak, you...