When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don'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.

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

My child will bear those scars forever, ” Tilv said angrily. “And if he isn’t a fool, perhaps your child will learn from them, ” Neferre returned calmly.

Maisie stepped out and moved as if there were gravity. "Are you coming or what?"Rook nodded and hefted Steve with him. "You should consider counseling.""For what?""Your God complex.

If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!

Ideally, I would like to be in a position where I represent 100 guys in the NFL, to be in a position where I could control whether some teams win or lose.

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

As long as you remember the person who loved you, and whom you still love, then you're making love endure.

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.

On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love.