Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

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.

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

Even the Republican Party doesn't have the legs to challenge Hillary Clinton.

True love is not a feeling by which we are overwhelmed. It is a committed, thoughtful decision.

Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.

I love an act that makes fun of the situation, and of course makes fun of yourself. That's important, you can't take yourself too seriously.