The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

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.

It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.

I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.