Ludwig van Beethoven // "To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable."
Ethan Hawke // "Look at this cup... It is not overanxious to be filled. It sits patient, unmoving, and empty... You must be like this... Answers to your questions will come, but if you are not still and empty, you will never be able to retain anything."
John Cleese // "You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about."
Nikki Giovanni // "I found out that if you don't understand yourself, you don't understand anybody else."
Princess Diana // "I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."
Albert Einstein // "I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of a university."
Franz Kafka // "By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
Audrey Tautou // "I'm not a rebellious person usually. But I fight against hypocrisy, and stupidity, and those invisible rules that can drive your life and put you through certain pressures. I don't especially like to always do everything that I've been told. I guess I can sometimes be...wild."
Frank McCourt // "Stock your mind, stock your mind... If you bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish...it will rot your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."
Chris Rock // "I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea, changing a belief is trickier. Life should be malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate."
Daniel Day-Lewis // "Whenever we reach what we think are the boundaries of our endurance, you know ten minutes later you're thinking: I could have done that... I could have gone further than that; I could have jumped higher."
Vincent Cassel // "If there's one thing I've learned in my short life, it's this: Never repress anything."