Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

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.

Change is not a force to be feared, but an opportunity to be seized.

The mansion was as silent as I wished the inside of my head could be. No noise – not even a ragged inhale of breath or a whispered word. Truly blissful.

Reflection is an all-consuming, in-depth, and serious thought process that is required in a paradigm shift.

I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.

And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.