Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

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.

life and time are equal

Jesus Christ is Lord of all, and all things have been put under his feet. There are no exceptions. (p. 70)

They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold.

Fewer than half of churchgoers, including born-again Christians, felt strongly that their church demonstrates unconditional love.

If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!

Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made.

I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.

I think a lot of the problem is that at 8 o'clock there's nothing on for kids.

When you see the beloved all around you, everyone is family and everywhere is love.

I'm excited about the opportunities with mobile phones and being able to receive information on the go and relevant to what I'm doing at that moment in time.