An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

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.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

There is no way of stopping death, not here. You can prolong it. But at some point, it is bound to catch up to you.

No one can make you honest. Only your heart and mind can do that.

People don't change, they come closer and closer to who they really are.

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.

That’s when this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God’s watching you, knowing that He knows you’re trying to be strong to please Him.

The thing that is my main focus is my family. More than anything, I want to be a good husband to my wife and a good father to my kids.

There were few who preferred honor to money.

People are consuming the news that is comfortable for them, not necessarily the news that is real or that they need to know.

Whatever age you think I am, you’re probably right.