And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

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.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

I mean, I like nice girls, and I like people who are generous.

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.