any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

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.

God is the composer

You can never deplete your love by giving it away. Why not give yourself to love?

The love of freedom is actually an aberration.

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

You've got to stop thinking everyone's problems can be solved by falling in love.

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.

I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.

Brayden met my eyes. His were hazel, almost like Eddie’s but with a little green. Not as much green as Adrian’s, of course. No one’s eyes were that amazingly green.