When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

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.

Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.

I've never really been one of those girls who's scared of showing a bit of flesh.

I have the talent and the tools to win.

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

I think everything happens as it's supposed to. I don't want to force anything. I want it to be so authentic that it's seamless.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.

I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.