People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

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.

Where you are no is the reflection of your lifelong thoughts and actions.

Memories haunting her, laughters chasing her, sweet talks stalking her.Everywhere she go, everything she does, it all leads back to him.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.

Men are immortal till their work is done.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.

Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.

Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.

So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.