Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

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.

At the mercy of grace

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Even a mistake is better than nothing.

Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.

Music's the medicine of the mind.

Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.

Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.

I hate going back over what I've written. It makes me feel physically sick.

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.