Mr. Rogers // "The thing I remember best about successful people I've met...is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others."
Patti Smith // "Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures...to guide us."
Amelia Earhart // "The most difficult thing is to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward."
Henri Matisse // "You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within a drunk or love is within the lover."
Alan Shepard // "You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book...you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability..."
Ernest Hemingway // "Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual."
Elizabeth Taylor // "I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them."
Françoise Sagan // "Art must take reality by surprise."
Diana Ross // "You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."
Henri Cartier-Bresson // "I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A balance must be established between these two worlds—the one inside us and the one outside us."
Ezra Miller // "I don't know if it's responsible for kids my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamous binds, because I don't think we're ready for them. The romanticism within our culture dictates that that's what you're supposed to be looking for. Then when we find what we think is love -- even if it is love -- we do not yet have the tools."
John Steinbeck // "This I believe: the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about."