The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

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.

Life is a test of courage, It's only worth if you can learn to withstand your most trying times and remain stable, steady, simple and strong in different places and spaces.

But no guy was worth being a girl guys cheated with.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

I know who likes football likes me

I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

Art is an emotional experience

Don't just exist, be a part of life.