No one individual can tell the truth.

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.

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

Islam and democracy can function together.

You know who likes to get fisted? Sock puppets.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.

No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smile. Nobody wants me, I'm nobody's child.

Sourav Ganguly is the new Steve Waugh of mind games.

There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or an elephant or a rhino for that matter.