What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.

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.

I value loyalty more than money

Always trust your gut instinct. There will come a time when you will understand, but for now trust God has a plan greater than you have ever imagined.

It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat.

My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.

The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes.

I didnt really watch Dallas growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.