I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Give up trying to make me give up

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Each soul is potentially divine.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.