The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

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.

Maybe down the road, I can see myself being part of the creative process, but acting is definitely my first and true love.

I'm the most transparent secretary of state because of that. I've been willing to say, "OK, read them [emails] all."

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.

Jesus Christ was the ultimate influencer. My life has been influenced by Jesus more than anyone else.

I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed.

I was born at night, but not last night.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.