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 takes a decade to grow a tree, and it takes more than one generation to shape the right mindset.

More than jealousy or possessiveness pettiness kills love.

With hard work, living a good life, you can do anything. You will be rewarded for that.

If me and my girlfriend were fighting, and it got to the point where she started crying, I would just shut up and hold her.

The death sentence is a barbaric act.

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.