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Maya Angelou // "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope."

Abraham Lincoln // (letter to son's teacher) "Respected teacher, my son will have to learn that all men are not just, all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel there is a hero; that for every selfish politician, there is a dedicated leader... It will take time, I know; but teach him, if you can...to have faith in his own ideas, even if everyone tells him they are wrong. Teach him to be gentle with gentle people and tough with the tough... Teach him to sell his brawn and brain to the highest bidders; but never to put a price tag on his heart and soul. Teach him to close his ears to a howling mob…and to stand and fight if he thinks he is right. Treat him gently; but do not coddle him because only the test of fire makes fine steel... Teach him to always have sublime faith in himself because then he will always have sublime faith in mankind. This is a big order; but see what you can do. He is such a fine little fellow, my son."

Salvador Dali // "Every one of my paintings, everybody laughed...but after 12 years, every scientific people recognize that every one of these paintings is a real prophecy. In the moment of painting my watches, a rigid object for everybody, I myself paint these watches very soft...everybody laughed. The last development of nuclear physics proved a new conception that space and time is completely flexible."

Jim Carrey // "I can tell you that the effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is."

Martin Luther King Jr. // "Nonviolent resistance…avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but he also refuses to hate him...people of the world must not succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter or indulging in hate campaigns. To retaliate in kind would do nothing but intensify the existence of hate in the universe...someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives."

Martin Luther King Jr. // "There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it."

John Lewis // "First time I got arrested, I knew somehow and some way, we would succeed. To go on the Freedom Ride to be beaten and left bloody and unconscious, to be beaten on that bridge in Selma, have a concussion - I thought that I was going to die on that bridge. But somehow and some way, I lived to tell about what happened, and I've seen some of the fruits of the labor of so many people, and people must understand that."

Pablo Picasso // "Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar."

Gaetano Pesce // "We are the product of a 5000 year history. We thought that the best way to think is the masculine way. Using the masculine side of our brain, our best values were coherence, strength, homogeneity, dogmatism, seriousness, rigidity. It's been a long time that I've thought we have to use the other side of the brain... The female side of the brain is multidisciplinary, full of feeling, it is the bridge, joy, elasticity, softness...which is much more friendly to the human being."

Barack Obama // "I am asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change – but in yours."

Meryl Streep // "Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life."

Winona Ryder // "I just felt like...well, you know, it's good to be different. So I never really modeled myself on anyone. I was inspired by lots of people...but I never wanted to be somebody else."