The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

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.

Closed doors simply means God is protecting us from having not the best.

If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

We firmly believe in Trafiguras unparalleled capacity to extract the full value of the Sudeste Superport.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

Trans fats really are a metabolic poison.