Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

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.

Give away all your love and become the love, and love never dies.

Grow taller than your failures

Compassion means removal of suffering – suffering of the self and the others.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

We need to give people more of an incentive to work, to save, to invest, to create a true future for themselves.

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.