No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

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 know God, know your heart (conscience). After you know your heart, you will learn to see God in all things. Truth can only be seen by those with Truth in them.

In these story telling moments we equip our children, with crucial solution tools for life. To deprive them of these necessary teachable moments is like denying a carpenter the tools of his trade.

I had to travel into the future and direct 'Jurassic World' as myself in 20 years - and I did.

One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Remember you always have freedom of choice.

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

I have a fan base worldwide, man. I think they're really down for me. That's how I got signed - 30,000 fans retweeting Rick Ross.

I'm really into nutrition from the inside out.