Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do..

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself..

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 ho….

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 ….

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once..

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time..

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow..

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi..

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults..

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid..

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 tha….

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 jus….

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves..

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain..

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 w….

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 stud….

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 co….

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore..

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other..