So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

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.

Beyond reasonable doubt, the each of us possesses unique gifts, amazing abilities to help heal the world if we so choose.

She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes.

Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.