It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

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.

You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want.

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

I believe we all have the Voice of Reason inside us...to gently lead us out of our own self-created hells.

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

There are idiots. Look around.

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is reprobate .. .He who eats the Lamb outside this Apostolic See has no part with God!