The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.

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.

Be kind, for whenever kindness becomes part of something, it beautifies it. Whenever it is taken from something, it leaves it tarnished.

Think different does not mean to think out of the box. It means to question what the significance of a box is?

Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

It's time for all Americans to get off of welfare and get back to work. You're going to love it!

Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.

And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.