Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.

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.

We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

A minority may be right and a majority is always wrong.

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.

The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

The most eminent virtue is doing simply what we have to do.

Love is the X-factor in healing!