Steve McQueen // "As far as inspiration is concerned...It's like catching butterflies... Can you get it? Is that possible? I don't know but one has to try."
Ai Weiwei // "Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the Internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word...even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper."
Paramahansa Yogananda // "It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life... Live simply."
Leonard Nimoy // "Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us."
Mick Jagger // "The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness."
Alan Fletcher // "I'd sooner do the same on Monday or Wednesday as I do on a Saturday or Sunday. I don't divide my life between labor and pleasure."
Charlie Chaplin // "You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world."
Philip Seymour Hoffman // "I hope we've gotten past where we have to identify who the person is by their sexuality...these are human beings...I would hope we'd be able to tell stories about gay men or straight men or gay women or whatever and focus on the person..."
Brad Pitt // "I've always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It's those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time...it's a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses."
John Updike // "Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."
Diana Vreeland // "A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste—it’s hearty, it’s healthy, it’s physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I’m against."
Kurt Cobain // "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are."