I don't want money badly enough to work for it.

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.

Throw out of your head the idea that you can, through a comfortable life, become what you must be in Christ.

Our greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

The world isn't logical, it's a song.

A bad day is just a day when you have been thinking more negative thoughts than positive ones. What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

We want to move even a step forward toward resolving the abduction issue.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.