Patti Smith // "I remember passing shop windows with my mother and asking why people didn't just kick them in. She explained that there were unspoken rules of social behavior, and that's the way we coexist as people. I felt instantly confined by the notion that we are born into a world where everything was mapped out by those before us. I struggled to suppress destructive impulses and worked instead on creative ones. Still, the small rule-hating self within me did not die."
Napoleon Bonaparte // "The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment."
Zaha Hadid // "You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices."
Johnny Depp // "I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide."
Lauren Bacall // "I have a contribution to make. I am not just taking up space in this life."
Anais Nin // "I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go."
Barbra Streisand // "I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you and you can't do it any other way."
Walt Disney // "A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive."
Buckminster Fuller // "If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them."
George Washington // "Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world."
James Baldwin // "I am what time, circumstance, history, have made me...but I am also so much more than that. So are we all."
Bob Dylan // "I had ambitions to set out and find...this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all...I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?"