I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

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.

Never get tired of dreaming no matter how failed you got. the more you fails the more it gets you wiser the more you will achieve what you're hoping for ...... Be positive

Everywhere my feet have touched on this planet has been magic, why cant others see it this way?

The best ideas must move you before they can move someone else.

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes.

Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.

I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.

Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

Produce results on the mat and in the classroom