I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

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.

Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Words are the money of fools.

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I'm kin to the devil.

I was flabbergasted to be asked to write an episode - partly because I’ve been so absorbed in the last few series that I’d sort of forgotten that it wasn’t real.

When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.

The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the 'I'-thought rises

While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.