Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.

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.

Chin up princess, or the crown slips.

A life of success demands that you never starve your dreams from the actions, courage, and faith that they consistently need.

Stop being a mystery, discover yourself!

Behind every successful woman(author) is a non-demanding husband content with a fruit-bowl.

No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.

I'm just trying to play my best and have fun.