My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

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.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

Ignore me. I don’t want to talk about my nonexistent love life today.

I need to talk to Clarisse," Annabeth said. I stared at her as if she'd just said "I need to eat a large, smelly boot." "What for?

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.

I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.