Franz Kafka // "By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
Audrey Tautou // "I'm not a rebellious person usually. But I fight against hypocrisy, and stupidity, and those invisible rules that can drive your life and put you through certain pressures. I don't especially like to always do everything that I've been told. I guess I can sometimes be...wild."
Frank McCourt // "Stock your mind, stock your mind... If you bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish...it will rot your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."
Chris Rock // "I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea, changing a belief is trickier. Life should be malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate."
Daniel Day-Lewis // "Whenever we reach what we think are the boundaries of our endurance, you know ten minutes later you're thinking: I could have done that... I could have gone further than that; I could have jumped higher."
Vincent Cassel // "If there's one thing I've learned in my short life, it's this: Never repress anything."
Jacques Cousteau // "People protect what they love."
Neil Gaiman // "...the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you: your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play...and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself, that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right."
Charles Dickens // "The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become."
Patti Smith // "I remember passing shop windows with my mother and asking why people didn't just kick them in. She explained that there were unspoken rules of social behavior, and that's the way we coexist as people. I felt instantly confined by the notion that we are born into a world where everything was mapped out by those before us. I struggled to suppress destructive impulses and worked instead on creative ones. Still, the small rule-hating self within me did not die."
Napoleon Bonaparte // "The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment."
Zaha Hadid // "You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices."