A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.

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.

One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.

..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way

It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward.

I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

We're not going to put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops, we're automatically going to make Americans safe.

Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.

Justice is God's control over the order of the universe. Mercy is God's power even over the order of the universe.

In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.

Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.