You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

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.

A rich life is lived from a giving heart not a selfish mind.

I only read books I know I will like

The kingdom of God must never be reduced to talk, ideas and principles. The kingdom of God is power

Every golfer has at least 14 enemies: his clubs.

... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.

The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.

My hate of Apple has moved into a hate of Facebook.

The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA.