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.
The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience
Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green... If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't.
Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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.
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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 ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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