Philippe Petit // "Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge...and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope."
Iris Apfel // "You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting."
Jean-Paul Sartre // "In a word, man must create his own essence. It is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself."
Dalai Lama // "As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all beings."
Stephen Hawking // "For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking...All we need to do is make sure we keep talking."
Marilyn Monroe // "I don't stop when I'm tired, I stop when I'm done."
Steve McQueen // "When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it."
Jay Z // "We were kids without fathers...so we found our fathers...on the streets and in history. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves."
Salvador Dali // "There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."
Malala Yousafzai // "They cannot stop me."
Bob Dylan // "It's a common thing to change your name...Many people do it...Names are labels so we can refer to one another. But deep inside we don't have a name."
Buckminster Fuller // "There is more recognition now that things are changing...but not because there is a political move to do it. It is simply a result of the information being there. Our survival won't depend on political or economic systems. It's going to depend on the courage of the individual to speak the truth, and to speak it lovingly and not destructively...and not to go along with the crowd, yet not making others seem ignorant. After a while, if enough human beings are doing it, then everybody will start going in the right direction."