“My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.”

I wished people could realize all of their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it’s not where you’ll find your sense of completion.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

One man’s toxic waste is another man’s potpourri.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

I feel that we’re all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

The peace that we’re after lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

When we free ourselves, we automatically free everyone around us. ⁣

I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.