The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

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.

Think your best thoughts every moment, every day. You will be the best person on the way.

Gold authenticity can only be tested under maximum fire. The same holds true with regard to manhood.

If My New Album Isn't Out in 2014, Something is Seriously Wrong!

I don't think of myself as a powerful person.

What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.

I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in love with. That was pretty awful. Did you know that in poetry, every line does not need to rhyme?

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

It's a great feeling to do what you want and do what you love. Everyone should try it sometime if you're not doing it already.

Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.

You don't have to be the specialist on everything. You can try to inform yourself.