Sometimes i think there must be a sort of pollen of ideas floating in the air, which fertilizes similarly minds here and there which have not had direct contact.

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.

I wanted to tell her that I loved her, and not in the complicated way I loved our parents, but in a simple way I never had to think about. I loved her like breathing.

When you're alone is when you can count your friends.

To see someone you love in so much pain—especially emotional pain that can’t be remedied—was the worst form of torture.

I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.

I make fun of people who are religious, because they're fundamentally weak.

Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.