This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

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.

Thinking about all the authors I love who wrote flawed books. You authors are such an enigma to me. Why do I love you so much?

I believe I've come to understand something. Love isn't always big and dramatic. It's big, it's deep, but it's also quiet and calm.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder...

I can only say this, a very, very important element of any country, but our country, and in my opinion, the single most important thing that a president can do is the defense of our country.

I felt that I committed myself too much. I promised too much. But that way it's exciting.

You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence.

I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.

The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.