A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

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.

Dance when the sun comes up.

Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity.

Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender from establishing equality.

Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

Summer makes a silence after spring.