I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

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.

If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets.

She is a slave, with no way home.

It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

Giving is true loving.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste.

Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field.