Steve Jobs // "If today were the last day of your life, would you want to do what you are about to do today?"
Prince // "A strong spirit transcends rules."
Louis CK // "You're never going to get the same things as other people. It's never gonna be equal. It's not gonna happen ever in your life, so you must learn that now, okay? Listen, the only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them."
Seymour Bernstein // "When you reach my age, you stop playing games. You stop lying to people and you just say really what's in your heart. And you find out that it's the greatest compliment to someone when you really say the truth and don't just say what they expect you to say."
Willem Dafoe // "My father used to say: 'You don't deserve it if you can't take care of it.' I've always been haunted by that."
Ettore Sottsass // "I believe you travel to confirm your ideas, and whatever you can't confirm you discard as you travel. In a certain sense, you redesign yourself when you're traveling."
Ludwig van Beethoven // "To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable."
Ethan Hawke // "Look at this cup... It is not overanxious to be filled. It sits patient, unmoving, and empty... You must be like this... Answers to your questions will come, but if you are not still and empty, you will never be able to retain anything."
John Cleese // "You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about."
Nikki Giovanni // "I found out that if you don't understand yourself, you don't understand anybody else."
Princess Diana // "I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."
Albert Einstein // "I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of a university."