The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about 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.

My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious.

The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition.

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

In all the talk in the Principles (as opposed to the formal analysis) it is not the saving of rentiers but the energy of entrepreneurs which governs accumulation.

We get the job done. So what happens if we win?

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.