Sophia Loren // "I was not interested in what I could bring to myself...but in what I could bring out of myself."
Stephen Hawking // "We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them."
Stephen Hawking // "Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free."
Stephen Hawking // "However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope."
Gordon Parks // "I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun...but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful."
Federico Fellini // "Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets."
Man Ray // "Unconcerned but not indifferent."
Larry David // "I'd rather have the thieves than the neighbors...the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time. I'd rather give them things than time."
Joni Mitchell // "I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people...where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel... It strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own."
Audrey Hepburn // "I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment."
Charles Bukowski // "Generally speaking, you're free until you're about 4 years old. Then you go to grammar school and then you start becoming...oriented and shoved into areas. You lose what individualism you have. If you have enough of course, you retain some of it... Then you work the 8 hour job with almost a feeling of goodness, like you're doing something. Then you get married like marriage is a victory, and you have children like children is a victory... Marriage, birth, children. It's something they have to do because there's nothing else to do. There's no glory in it, there's no steam, there's no fire. It's very, very flat... You get caught into the stricture of what you're supposed to be and you have no other choice. You're finally molded and melded into what you're supposed to be. I didn't like this."
Jack Nicholson // "You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity."