It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

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.

Success-minded people need to understand that the best way to learn is to ask questions and listen for answers.

Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

Power tends to connect absolute power connects absolutely.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.

I'm my happiest when I'm really busy. I love feeling like I need one more hour of sleep, or when I'm running around frazzled!

I'm a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I do think there are very important moral and also religious questions at stake in the debate over embryonic stem cell research.

Good Hock (Hochheimer) keeps off the Doc.

The noblest motive is the public good.

They [international terrorists] are after us because we're a Christian nation.