J.K. Rowling // "Don’t let the muggles get you down."
Cate Blanchett // "Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character."
Paul Newman // "I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried...tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out."
Alice Walker // "What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears."
Tilda Swinton // "It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien."
Pablo Picasso // "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez // "I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature."
Anais Nin // "We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task."
Marilyn Monroe // "Beneath the makeup and behind the smile, I am just a girl who wishes for the world."
Donald Glover // "The thing I imagine myself being in the future doesn’t exist yet."
Vincent Van Gogh // "Many people seem to think it foolish...to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, 'What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.' Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope."
Mahatma Gandhi // "In a gentle way, you can shake the world."