I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

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.

Killing flowers for our own happiness is a wrong attitude, it is a wrong culture! We must change this attitude and abolish this culture! Let the flowers live!

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Writing is a team sport.

Until your physical togetherness increases, your development in the inner worlds will not increase.

Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.

Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago.

It's all the same for me, how I teach, how I write, how I think.

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.