You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.

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.

When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gratification ...

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.

I'm not f-ing Justin Bieber, you motherf-ers!

There's a whole segment of the population with a mentality that bases good times on where they can go and what they can buy.

There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created.

I've been on the phone, I think, 20 out of 24 hours the last three days.

God has loved us in spite of us.

Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing.