There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.

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.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago

I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade - everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles.

You might be a redneck if you were shooting pool when your kids were born.

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

Don't hang up until the client either buys or dies.

I hope that I can turn some of my fans that might be homophobic or supporters that might be homophobic and say, "You know what, we're all one people. This is love."

Every small group has at least one 'difficult' person in it. If you don't immediately recognize who that person is -- it's probably you!

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, And dance like no one's watching. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made