The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

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.

Only absences were fully shared.

What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.

It's very challenging. The most important thing you need as a sportsman is to be clear on what you're actually doing.

My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

Character contributes to beauty.

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

Sometimes on the way to your dream, you get lost and find a better one.

Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.