It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.

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.

Peanut butter is the pate of childhood.

It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.

Ain't no boundaries, ain't no limits.

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

I do believe that we should have to - make the voters first; not the donors first.

We remain committed to the conference and fully anticipate that the Big 12 will honor its commitment to Texas A&M.