...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'

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.

Sin is incompatible with the glory, beauty and holiness of God.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

But I believe the greatest enemy of the Bible is the so-called Christian who simply ignores the Bible or disregards it.

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

You are already free. You only have to know and realize this truth.