A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

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.

Nothing ever goes back on the vine.

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.

Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.

Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.

But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?

A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.

Contentment is not escape from the battle, but rather an abiding peace and confidence in the midst of the battle.