“You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.”

“Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.”

“Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.”

“Do I know what a man is ? Do I know how a man is supposed to die ? I’m still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived ?”

“He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.”

“There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.”

“And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. ”