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.

You don't need to change who you are to praise the God.

Your best walk is the one you walk with your own style! Imitating others means wiping out ourselves!

I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.

I think that at some point everybody turns into their mother or their father, it's just not normally from morning to afternoon.

My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too

With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.