Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

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.

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.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

You have to make sacrifices for the things you believe in. If you don’t, what’s the point in believing in anything?

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

A person who can, within a year, solve x2 - 92y2 = 1 is a mathematician.

What you see, isn't always what you get

All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't.

I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard.

England is safe, if true within itself.