Nevermind nomenclatures, boy! What a serendipitous situation this is!

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.

I told you that I would protect you. Even if you don't want me to, " he whispered, moving closer and pulling me against him. "Some things are worth protecting

Sometimes my life is in gray color but sometimes it is just like a rainbow.

Sleep well in your room all three together... don't worry about me being alone.

I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

Frog catching is the most fun a human being can have while on this earth.

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.

I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.

I do politics in order to do policy.