Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

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.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Guess you can take the girl off the Earth but you can’t take the Earth out of the girl. Not completely, anyway.

He sips his drink and it leaves his handlebar mustache dripping like a cattle dog come outta a river.

There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.

Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.

Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.

People in government are self-interested just like people in business.

I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.