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.
Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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.
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.
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.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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