Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

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.

Being in home is like magic moments, in a magic world, among maicians

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.

Before I let myself question my loyalty to my people, I'm quitting music. I didn't do this to be by myself.

To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.

While I enjoy and have enjoyed great success building my own personal apparel and accessories collections, my greatest passion has and will always be real estate.

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.

When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.