I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

Good or bad is created by humans and pertains only to them.

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.

The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.

I got called 'pretty boy' my whole life.

I don't think films in and of themselves create radical change, but I think a film can contribute to people's understanding and deepen their understanding and help contribute to a shift.