Joseph Beuys // "Let someone dangerous in for tea. Make small signs that say "yes" and spread them all over your house. Become a friend of freedom and uncertainty...Take a lot of naps...Dream wild, imaginative dreams. Draw on walls. Read every day. Imagine you are enchanted. Giggle with children. Listen to old people...Be free. Praise yourself. Let go of fear. Play with everything. Preserve the child in you."
John Glenn // "If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest."
Charlie Chaplin // "Think of the power of the universe – turning the earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you...if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it."
Barack Obama // "Michelle is a tremendously strong person, and has a very strong sense of herself and who she is and where she comes from. But I also think in her eyes you can see a trace of vulnerability that most people don't know, because when she's walking through the world she is this tall, beautiful, confident woman. There is a part of her that is vulnerable and young and sometimes frightened, and I think seeing both of those things is what attracted me to her."
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."