Alice Walker // "I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way...some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to."
Haruki Murakami // "We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the vases."
Pablo Casals // "The only credit we can claim is for the use we make of the talent we are given... Don't be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters. You must cherish this gift. Do not demean or waste what you have been given. Work...work constantly and nourish it."
Annie Leibovitz // "When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them."
Carl Sagan // "The cosmos is within us...We are a way for the universe to know itself."
Tove Jansson // "It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that."
James Baldwin // "You've got to tell the world how to treat you."
Thomas Jefferson // "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
Sean Penn // "You can only go forward in one direction. You can do it serpentine if you like, but you're not going to get anywhere and if you do you're going to get there much more slowly. I'm trying to straighten the line out a little bit more each day."
Jean-Michel Basquiat // "I wanted to build up a name for myself."
Soichiro Honda // "The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred."
William Morris // "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."