A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need to.

The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.

Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.

Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

Are we gonna just make movies about trying to get laid over and over again or focus on something that's more relevant?

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think