An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

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 am not seeing myself in your eyes, I think someone has replaced me

If her artist's eye had given her nothing else, it taught her to see beauty where few others noticed it.

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

I might not come home with hardware, but I'm winning.

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it's our garden that is really nurturing us.

I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.

Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

Has everyone gone mad?” “Everyone was mad already, my lady,” Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. “It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.