Lucia Berlin // "What if our bodies were transparent, like a washing machine window? How wondrous to watch ourselves. Joggers would jog even harder, blood pumping away. Lovers would love more...Diets would improve, kiwi fruit and strawberries."
J.K. Rowling // "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it."
Martin Luther King Jr. // "May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause... A time like this demands great souls with pure hearts and ready hands... Leaders who will not lie. Leaders who can stand before the demagogue and damn his treacherous flatteries without winking... This is one of the great needs of the hour."
Frank Lloyd Wright // "We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple; a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means."
Jack Nicholson // "I don't want to be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me."
George Bernard Shaw // "I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want...and if they can't find them...make them."
Edgar Allan Poe // "Invisible things are the only realities."
Keanu Reeves // "Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed."
Georgia O'Keeffe // "I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught."
Amy Winehouse // "There's no point in saying anything but the truth."
Albert Einstein // "I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers."
Johann Sebastian Bach // "Bring me a bowl of coffee before I turn into a goat."