Muhammad Ali // "I would like to be remembered...as a man who never looked down on those who looked up to him, and who helped as many people as he could. As a man who stood up for his beliefs no matter what. As a man who tried to unite all humankind through faith and love. And if all that's too much, then I guess I'd settle for being remembered only as a great boxer who became a leader and a champion for his people. And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was."
Nikki Giovanni // "Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way."
Jack Nicholson // "I'm dying to have my mind changed."
Rick Rubin // "Reading great novels...seeing a great movie...reading poetry... The more you can do to get out of the mode of competition, where you get out of what other people are doing and wanting to be better than them... The only way to use the inspiration of other artists is if you submerge yourself in the greatest works of all time... If you listen to the greatest songs ever made, that would be a better way to work through to find your own voice to matter today than listening to what's on the radio now and thinking, 'I want to compete with this.'"
T.E. Lawrence // "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
Chris Hadfield // "In any new situation...you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As a minus one: actively harmful, someone who creates problems. Or as a zero: your impact is neutral and doesn't tip the balance one way or the other. Or you'll be seen as a plus one: someone who actively adds value. Everyone wants to be a plus one, of course. But proclaiming your plus-oneness at the outset almost guarantees you'll be perceived as a minus one, regardless of the skills you bring to the table or how you actually perform... At best...be a zero...a zero isn't a bad thing to be. You're competent enough not to create problems or make more work for everyone else. You have to be competent and prove to others that you are before you can be extraordinary. There are no shortcuts..."
Kate Moss // "My mother...was like, 'Why can't you just be normal?' I turned round and said, 'Why do you think you're normal?' It's that thing of being in suburbia and being crazy, but they don't think they are."
Pablo Picasso // "Everything you can imagine is real."
Cary Grant // "I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me."
Frida Kahlo // "At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can."
Howard Zinn // "Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think... their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past... we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible."
George Carlin // "I like people who buck the system. Individualists. I often warn people: Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is: Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity."