The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

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 are your own star.

Tattlers also and busy bodies speaking things which they ought not.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

Tim Curley and Gary Schultz operate at the highest levels of honesty, integrity and compassion.

I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

Love comes from the strangest places.

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.