It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.

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.

Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.

Kindness is the highest form of service to the humanity.

Just let go of the need to care about whether it happens or not, then you are free from fear and can then concentrate on focusing.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

I won't quit on a player who doesn't quit on himself.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

I'm with Houston now. I just have to come in here and play hard and win games.

He had never even glimpsed her.

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

Cooking is like decorating - it never bores me.