Did you ever have a sister? did you?

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.

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles

I believe fear of what we do not know may be the devil's best tool, meant to keep us back from those we long to approach.

Get with it, or get left behind.

Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses.

Has every oyster a different taste?

My ambition was always to be a perfect picture of an American.

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

Since becoming a journalist, each time I engage with subjects I become more radicalized.

The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.