How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

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.

Maybe her parents had picked a favorite kid, but that hadn’t bowed Kate. It had made her lock her legs and stand strong instead.

Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me.

When intelligence shuts a door, wisdom opens a window.

I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced.

The bible tells us to be grateful in every situation. I am grateful for mine.

I love food so much, all I have to do is look at it and I gain 5 pounds.

Lying on top of a building, the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.