Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.

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.

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

Her beauty was ethereal, knocking on the door of the part of his psyche that still believed in magic and miracles.

Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.

I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

I feel so bad for him [Bernie Sanders]. It's really unfortunate that he's been caught in the crossfire here.

The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live.

How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.

For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character