I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi

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.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

I find it rather depressing that the people you love most in this world can also be the same exact people you hate with fervor. But it can happen, trust me.It was the f***ing story of my life.

Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

If God has given you a message, go and give it to the people as God has given it to you. It is a stupid thing to try to be eloquent.

If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right.

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what YOU are made of.