Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

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.

If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

Some people take drugs in a quest for spirituality.

If I had a dollar for every million-dollar idea I've had, I'd be rich.

Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.