Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

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.

Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.And eaten their dinners.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.

Dead men would start and move toward me to learn of love.

He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running.

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.