No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

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.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

It's funny how the littlest things can make you feel larger than life; the right lyric, the most heartfelt melody, the clearest message. Love.

The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

I think I kind of want to get to a point of being as successful as possible in a way that's unique to me.

Decide what you want to be.... Pay the Price ... And be what you want to be.

Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.