Meryl Streep // "Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple."
Katharine Hepburn // "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get...only what you are expecting to give—which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving."
Salvador Dali // "...I very early realized, instinctively, my life formula: to get others to accept as natural the excesses of one’s personality and thus to relieve oneself of his own anxieties by creating a sort of collective participation."
Eugene O'Neill // "The best I can do is to try to encourage you to work hard at something you really want to do and have the ability to do. Because any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy... What I am trying to get firmly planted in your mind is this: In the really important decisions of life, others cannot help you. No matter how much they would like to. You must rely on yourself. That is the fate of each one of us. It can’t be changed. It just is like that."
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."