If a story is in you, it has to come out.

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.

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance

Stop acting so small, you are as big as the universe!!!!!!!!

[What do you want to be when you grow up?] "A wrecker of civilizaton

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

I just want to say I owe the whole reds organization a great deal. Great staff top to bottom and I wish those guys all the best.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

I'm not hard to find. I'm all over the Internet.

A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death