He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

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.

Sometimes, it will never make sense until you find the right path that makes sense to you and no one else.

Half of wisdom is love and friendship with people.(the other half is to guard yourself against the evils of people)

God has a lot more to give and to offer than the world has to give.

The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships.

The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength.

It is people's hearts that move the age.

Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

What you think is the summit is only a step up