There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.

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.

The deeply secretive cannot grasp that protecting your secret too fiercely exposes it.

I had a career at home, and I just knew that it'd be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.

I think it's important that models be healthy.

I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.

The real leader holds the power, not just the position.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

I want longevity. I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to continue to do good work and projects that inspire me, and if I can have fun while doing it, that's the dream.

If you're at the top, then brace for the fall.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.