The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

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.

Life is a university, you will keep learning new things all the time. The tombstone will be your degree.Make sure it's worth a fortune for those who admire you.

We have regiments as innumerable as the sands...And arsenals as uncountable as the stars.

Never do what the devil provokes you to do

Life is about timing.

Oh, no, it can't be teardrops 'Cause a man ain't supposed to cry.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

Life is too frickin' crazy sometimes, it really is.... You never know what's going to happen, do you.

My way of thinking is better than yours.

Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.

I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.