People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.

To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.

Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.

True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

I love America, it's a much more permissive place.

Sometimes that's the only way I exist, talking to people through pop culture.

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.

You know, my dear, I insured my voice for fifty thousand dollars.

Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.