What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.

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 know you’re dealing with a numpty when her saving grace is that she didn’t help to cover up a murder.

Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.

When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.

If you have ever spray-painted your girlfriends name on an overpass, you might be a redneck.

Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings.

The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.

Seriousness is a sickness... Existense is pure playfulness

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.