Civilization begins with distillation

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.

Never do an enemy a small injury.

You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.

Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Since I'm the judge, it's a very stupid thing to irritate me!

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.