I am not one of those women who can stand things.

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.

Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell.

You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.

I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside.

Some things are best left alone. Such as interfering in things which are beyond our powers.

I don't try to rap about or emulate the life of another person.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late ’60s and ’70s and I guess I’ve inherited that awareness from her.

Health is worth more than learning.