Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

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.

He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child, " I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point.

The whole purpose of choosing to invest as a career is to let the management be constantly worried about his company and let yourself sip your wine

Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything.

Let's be incomplete together.

And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball.

There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.

Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

I would want to be a very present mother. You know, something that I never had.