You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

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 have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

I don't know what happened to me, " he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." ... "You grew up, Alex.

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

Life comes and goes. …If you know that, you know it all.

Character isn't all about becoming a saint or perfect. No one is perfect! There are areas we all are working on to improve and fine tune..

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II

Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.