By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.

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.

Stories, A Portal to Anywhere but Here.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful.

what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.

We stand before God's wonder and yet we are disinterested and bored. This should not be.