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.

What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe

We did really well for a generation after 1989 and the fall of communism. Our liberal values expanded in the world, our prosperity expanded.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

When Serena Williams is number one, its hard to think of being number one, but still I have confidence that I can win more titles and reach a higher ranking.

Even though I'm proud by dad invented the rear-view mirror, we're not as close as we appear.