Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

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.

God’s manifest His mighty power, when we absolute depend on Him.

It's what you do right now that makes a difference.

To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.

My body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one I love, but my mind holds the key.

Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage rage against the dying of the light.

I'm not on a special diet, but I do try to stay away from a lot of fried foods and from a lot of carbs. Yes, I eat a little bit of all of it.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.

But if you kept thinking about a fight you’d lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.

Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.