There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I'm a vagabond and a tramp.

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.

Never give up. It might not seem easy at first but in the end, it will all be worth it

When you do your work happily, work will disappear.

The smile she felt cross her face probably could be seen from outer space, it was so large.

Give a person a job you help them pay some bills, teach them how to find a career and you provide them with sustenance for life!

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

Pranayama teaches the aspirant to regulate his breathing and thereby control the mind.

You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.

To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.