If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be 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.

Talk to me when your nuts are so blue they look like something you can hang on a Christmas tree.

On close analysis, it would seem that there is a possibility that we are god's robots

We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better. -Bishop Milton Wright to Orville Wright, 20 Sept. 1908

You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away. - Clary Fray

Describe your perfect man who looks like me.

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.

Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.