Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

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.

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.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

True strength resides in the heart, alongside beauty. So when in distress remember that you are courageously beautiful.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.

The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

But things were different now. I finally had my head -pun intended- on straight.

It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.