We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

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.

Jesus has kept the Heaven beyond the reach of Scientific Wisdom but within the reach of Spiritual Wisdom.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?""They do it all the time, " says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.

Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you.

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.

I do or die, but I never cancel out.

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.