An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn'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.

I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me.

Men weigh love with hands.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed – with energy and engagement – and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.

she is an illusion... she can fake everything... you may feel she don't have emotions but may be she is the most emotional one...

Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.

"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.

I always try to make myself be very approachable and easy to talk to, so hopefully people will feel that they can approach me.

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

We all have the means to be prosperous. We have to find the balance between our wealth and our needs