True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.

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.

Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.

Delighting in the Lord alters the desires.

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

If my dad was alive, I wouldn't have gone to boarding school, and I wouldn't have had the success I've had.

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.

There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.

I've got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I'm like a zeta male.

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.