The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

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.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Where there is true variety, there will be inevitable 'inequality' - that is simply the result of human nature and the pluralism that defines us as a people.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the '80s, they got away with some of those too.

Like everything else, Preppiness begins in the home.

Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love.