Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

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.

Once you come to terms with why you don't eat cats, dogs, monkeys, and dolphins, you will begin to understand why I don't eat cows, pigs, chickens, and lambs.

learning to live in the spirit of prayer hour by hour decorates your life with insight and blessings

Your power is in your individuality, in being exactly who you area.

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

I believe that the monetary stability is an absolutely critical element in the satisfactory operation of a system.

Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.

Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.