Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?

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.

The crimson leaf that blew past looked the twin of the one she'd picked up in the palace courtyard: a bloodied hand.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.

And as I got older and played more, people began to forget about my age and took the music more seriously.

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, an even greater miracle happened: 12 relatively uneducated guys changed the world and were martyred to protect a lie.

I'm glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

During a national crisis, we as a nation become a single community and no one should take advantage of a crisis.