...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

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.

You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all

Nothing shines up a halo faster than death Matthew. But funerals are for the living... and revising history... only dilutes the lessons we should learn from it.

The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.

I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all.

God elevates nations that behave in conformity with God's standards but he withdraws his blessings from a people who disregard those standards.

Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport — in order that other people will travel on the buses so that there is more room for them to drive their cars.

and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her.

Materialism is the consciousness of wanting to exploit and enjoy.