...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

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.

The only way to find art is to lose touch with reality.

The measure of wisdom is in simplicity, humility, and in friendliness.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

I'm really obsessed with 'Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares.' I really don't know why.

sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.

The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Touch is a freaky thing when you're not used to it. It makes you feel all kinds of things.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.