Wonder. Go on and wonder.

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.

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.

After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.

The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.

Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back.

If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.

Truth has no path, truth is living and, therefore, changing.

Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market