Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

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.

Aura, I'm really patient, but I'm not a bloody saint.

Here we go, ” Phoenix said, turning back to Nora. “Try not to let this room scare you.

Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed.

Jesus conformed to our image so we could be transformed into His likeness

In Russia you learn patience, " said Ivan. "In America you learn action.

The dead are practical.

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.

I would really love to sit with Kathryn Hepburn because I find her so interesting.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.