Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

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.

Don't leave yet, " he said, his voice hoarse. "Let me do something. Let me feed you. Hold you. Rub your shoulders. Change your oil. Anything, please.

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.

How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about.

I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.

When the bandwagon presents itself, you have to jump onto it.

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.