To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.

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.

Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art.

This may be invading her privacy but I was Death, dammit. I should get some privileges

In literature, you know only what you imagine

Nuclear is the single greatest threat.

Lovers may come and go, there was the memory of blood, the low call.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

It's been an unusual election [2016].