Mick Jagger // "Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind."
Chuck Palahniuk // "We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane... Heroes or victims... Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better."
Albert Camus // "I’m going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest. Emotions are."
Janis Joplin // "I just want to feel as much as I can..."
Neil Gaiman // "Once in New York, I listened to a talk about the building of private prisons... The prison industry needs to plan its future growth – how many cells are they going to need? How many prisoners are there going to be, 15 years from now? And they found they could predict the answers very easily, using a pretty simple algorithm, based on asking what percentage of 10 and 11-year-olds couldn't read. And certainly couldn't read for pleasure... Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in... Political movements, personal movements, all begin with people imagining another way of existing."
Iris Apfel // "When you don't dress like everyone else, you don't have to think like everyone else."
Anne Frank (in the window) // "Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there as long as you live, to make you happy again. Whenever you're feeling lonely or sad, try...looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that you're pure within and will find happiness once more."
Gene Wilder // "Time is a precious thing. Never waste it."
Bob Dylan // "A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
Henry David Thoreau // "As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
Virginia Woolf // "When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"
Elizabeth Taylor // "You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way."