...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

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.

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

Friendship is earned by those who accepted each other for what they are and for what they have. Trust and respect flows in each other to make it lasting.

Some information I just keep to myself.

None of us would choose to be Sisyphus; yet in a sense, we all are.

There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.

I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.

A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.