I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.

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.

At least there is one book with which we all or few of us could have fun.

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

All I want to do is change the world.

You can't force someone to learn. You present these beautiful lines that have so much to do with the world today and let them fall where they will.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face.

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

I'm not a quick study, so I'm always struggling for my words right up until.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.