The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.

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.

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

I spilled spot remover on my dog now he's gone.

Oh no." I said panic rising in my chest. "No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!!

Love is energy of life.

You can either destroy your spirit or you can accept and love yourself just the way you are.

The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

A nice pair of Jimmy Choos never hurt anyone.

We are all victims of war, and we all count.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.