My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

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.

The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense.

God is not just intensely personal. He is infinitely powerful.

Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.

We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped.

Sam," she said, and I crushed her to me.

All education must be self-education.