Christian Bale // "I am afraid...but I will not run and I will not look back. I will just go deeper. Until I come through."
Eugene O'Neill // "The best I can do is to try to encourage you to work hard at something you really want to do and have the ability to do. Because any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy... What I am trying to get firmly planted in your mind is this: In the really important decisions of life, others cannot help you. No matter how much they would like to. You must rely on yourself. That is the fate of each one of us. It can’t be changed. It just is like that."
Richard Pryor // "If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think."
Colette // "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
Roald Dahl // "I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life...if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be."
John F. Kennedy // "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
Barack Obama // "The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind."
Paul McCartney // "I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."
Lee Miller // "Other people tend to value you the way you value yourself."
William S. Burroughs // "There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks."
Paul Bowles // "Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. It was often on trips that he thought most clearly, and made the decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary."
Jean-Michel Basquiat // "I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract, expressionist...really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spider-Man."