Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

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.

Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.

Believe in God and in yourself and then success will not pass you by

Don’t fall in love, it is dangerous, fall for friendship and you will find everything” Ashwin

Sometimes, " he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.

It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.