Dionne Warwick // "I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them."
Mick Jagger // "My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like bricklaying."
Lauren Bacall // Frank Sinatra
John Lennon // "I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak...I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."
Henry Miller // "Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny...serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, or evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."
Buster Keaton // "Think slow, act fast."
Philippe Petit // "Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge...and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope."
Iris Apfel // "You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting."
Jean-Paul Sartre // "In a word, man must create his own essence. It is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself."
Dalai Lama // "As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all beings."
Stephen Hawking // "For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking...All we need to do is make sure we keep talking."
Marilyn Monroe // "I don't stop when I'm tired, I stop when I'm done."