The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

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 cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can’t love me.

A strong mind focuses not on its obstacle, but on the reward that lies at the end of it.

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.

I always prefer things straight up, not cold or watered down. Not big on cocktails either.

Vegan or not, gluten-free or not, Erin McKenna's donuts are the best I've had in 20 years, without exception.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.