It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

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.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

You can go out and get anything you want if you work hard enough for it and believe in yourself.

But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane.

I learned that the political is above the legal, that's why when my advisors tell me, Evo, what you are doing is illegal, I say, if it is illegal, then do it legal, you have studied for that".

What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think that you will be satisfied with the stakes. That's all I can say about that.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.