She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

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.

It may take a lifetime for an individual to live, but it takes just under four seconds for the occupants of the Seville to live a collective life.

Many a person has held close throughout their entire lives two friends that always remained strange to one another because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity the other by difference.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

I think communication is so firsbern.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.