A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe."(on Mark Twain)

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

He may take long walksin the raining darkalmost aimlesslyto a spot of soaked grassin a neighbor’s open field.He’s decided this is the placefor you and him to meet again.

Beyond all judgments of good and bad ...is perfection - Vivian Amis

It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else.

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?

The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win.

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

The first weeks in the US, I was asking, ‘Where is my food?’

Work is an anchor; it prevents the undisciplined minds drifting to the past. It keeps them in the present time.

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.