now i can get them teeth

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.

To demonstrate the nature of one who would enter the kingdom is to use an illustration

Great achievers are willing to die as hatrick dream scorers rather than to live as disappointed spectators! They keep the running to make it happen!

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

I prefer not to fly, but sometimes it's unavoidable.

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!