the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

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.

To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert.Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions.

Things in Arizona don’t just die

One positive idea can solve the situation you in, can make a massive difference and change your life forever.

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.

I was in the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget, you went out of business.

What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.

You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.