There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

I just tried everything out - I mean, everything. Even my sexual orientation; I was just searching for what I really wanted. And I didn't quite know.

The sooner you step away from your comfort zone, the sooner you'll realize that it wasn't really all that comfortable.

Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.

When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.

You can do what you want. But it's nature to be with your own. I want to be with my own.

Remember, your mind is your greatest asset, so be careful what you put into it.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.