Fred Rogers // "If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."
Zora Neale Hurston // "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."
John Lennon // "Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and that's just barely possible."
Maurice Sendak // "I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it."
Pelé // "I've come to accept that the life of a front runner is a hard one...that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental."
Chloe Sevigny // "I'd like to be more approachable, not less weird."
Cédric Villani // "Things should be done...it is not all about shining and brilliance; sometimes it is better to step out of the light and work quietly."
Nikola Tesla // "All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle."
Egon Schiele // "Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside."
Matthew McConaughey // "We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there's enough room for all of us to succeed."
Arundhati Roy // "The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never forget."
Elvis Presley // Sophia Loren