There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality.

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.

I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed to.

The most fruitful and the most joy-filled Christians are the most pruned Christians.

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

I can tell that you been crying all night, drinking all summer, praying for your happiness, hope that you recover

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

I'm 37, I'm pretty fit and feel I have another eight years left - which means there's 32 Majors still to go at.

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.