Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

What matters is what we make of our existence.

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

But there are only so many times you can handle heartbreak with someone before you have to start protecting yourself.

The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.