Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

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.

Well, have you even tried again? You can’t just sit around waiting for the new world to take it with you. You have to go out and be part of it - despite your past mistakes.

Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.

Hope says to us constantly "Go on go on " and leads us thus to the grave.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Always live your life with your biography in mind, " Dad was fond of saying."Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

Don't throw a baby at anything - even a burglar.

Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.

I'm sitting on the stile. Mary, Where we sat side by side.

Each of us as he receives his private trouncings at the hands of fate is kept in good heart by hearing of the moth in his brother's parachute and the scorpion in his neighbor's underwear.

Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences