We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.

There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, "How long shall I hope on this fashion?" when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward?

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

My first place in Nashville was like Animal House. The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.

Zuckerberg had the good sense to know both his own limitations and interests. He wanted an executive who would free him to do what he loved: code, and enhancing the Facebook platform.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

Love was an agony beyond compare

If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.

It's amazing what you don't see, though. Even when it's right in front of your eyes.