Muhammad Ali // "What you're thinking is what you're becoming."
Alfred Hitchcock // "I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there's somebody nobody knows about."
Nina Simone // "I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear."
Anthony Hopkins // "I expect nothing and accept everything...it makes life so much easier."
John Lennon // "The more I see, the less I know for sure."
Albert Camus // "You will never be able to experience everything. So, please do...justice to your soul and simply experience yourself."
Albert Einstein // (Letter from young girl): "I forgot to tell you, in my last letter, that I was a girl. I mean I am a girl. I have always regretted this a great deal, but by now I have become more or less resigned to the fact. Anyway, I hate dresses and dances and all the kind of rot girls usually like... Long ago, before I wanted to become a scientist, I wanted to be a jockey and ride horses in races. But that was ages ago, now. I hope you will not think any the less of me for being a girl!" (Einstein): "I do not mind that you are a girl, but the main thing is that you yourself do not mind. There is no reason for it."
Sylvia Plath // "Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself."
Edward Gorey // "I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist... I am a person who does those things."
Johnny Depp // "Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don't let the world go."
Amy Poehler // "I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things."
Charles Bukowski // "Generally speaking, you're free until you're about 4 years old. Then you go to grammar school and then you start becoming...oriented and shoved into areas. You lose what individualism you have, if you have enough of course, you retain some of it... Then you work the 8 hour job with almost a feeling of goodness, like you're doing something. Then you get married like marriage is a victory, and you have children like children is a victory... Marriage, birth, children. It's something they have to do because there's nothing else to do. There's no glory in it, there's no steam, there's no fire. It's very, very flat... You get caught into the stricture of what you're supposed to be and you have no other choice. You're finally molded and melded into what you're supposed to be. I didn't like this."