Wilbur Wright // "What is chiefly needed is skill rather than machinery...It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. This I conceive to be fortunate, for man, by reason of his greater intellect, can more reasonably hope to equal birds in knowledge than to equal nature in the perfection of her machinery."
Debbie Harry // "I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present."
Benazir Bhutto // "Throughout the ages, leadership and courage have often been synonymous. Ultimately, leadership requires action: daring to take steps that are necessary but unpopular, challenging status quo in order to reach a brighter future. And to push for peace is ultimately personal sacrifice, for leadership is not easy. It is born of a passion, and is a commitment. Leadership is a commitment to an idea, to a dream, and to a vision of what can be."
Wernher von Braun // "I am convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon." — TV Interview, Jan. 7, 1972
Natalie Wood // "At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still, you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space."
Henri Matisse // "You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover."
Mahatma Gandhi // "As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world...as in being able to remake ourselves."
Grace Kelly // "I hated Hollywood. It's a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns, where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics and so much unhappiness."
Simone de Beauvoir // "In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
Keith Richards // "What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people's hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you're playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart."
Etta James // "What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries."
Gerhard Richter (self-portrait, 1966) // "Weeks go by, and I don't paint until finally I can't stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost don't want to talk about it, because I don't want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself."