Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.

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.

Shit happens. You can either stand their and complain about the smell or you can wipe your shoe and keep walking.

One may have been a fool but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

I love that movie [The Specials]. I love James Gunn. I always sort of suspected that he would do well for himself.

With the camera you might even not need the reporters. But, you see, media can't trust you to watch [Barack] Obama without them telling you what you just saw and analyzing it.

Rush Limbaugh, whether you hate him or not, he's a great entertainer; he's a great broadcaster.

Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution.