Well, Bud," he said, looking at me, "I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses?

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.

You would have only seen a skittish young deer jumping through the forest, having no idea it was a little girl.

I am poppies in the fieldRed and cold I am sleeping alone and I am lightI am lightI am light

All we’ve got left to protect here is a system that’s set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

God's little Blond Blessing we have long deemed you, and hope his so-called Will will not compel him to revoke you.

I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music

Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.

Though varying wishes, hopes, and fears, Fever'd the progress of these years, Yet now, days, weeks, and months but seem The recollection of a dream.