Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.

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.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.

It must descend, as the dew, upon the tender herb, or like melting flakes of snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.

Not since Reggie White have the Packers had a pass rusher of this magnitude.