Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error..

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors..

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all..

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

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….

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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….

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

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 ….

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….

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..