He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."(on Ernest Hemingway

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.

Today, just for today, let someone live in your beauty of love.

The spiritual path is an inward journey. On the spiritual path, the external life remains the same, but you begin the inward journey towards the truth.

Earth" is not too long an address. It is the parts which make us forget the way.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

I don't mind dating younger men now.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

You don't have to say everything to say something.

I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

Present thinking people kill the future.

Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it