Jim Henson // "The most sophisticated people I know...inside they are all children."
Anne Frank // "What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again."
Stephen Fry // "We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing...an actor, a writer...I am a person who does things...I write, I act...and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun."
Elon Musk // "I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad."
Zadie Smith // "If novelists know anything it’s that individual citizens are internally plural: they have within them the full range of behavioral possibilities. They are like complex musical scores from which certain melodies can be teased out and others ignored or suppressed, depending, at least in part, on who is doing the conducting. At this moment, all over the world—and most recently in America—the conductors standing in front of this human orchestra have only the meanest and most banal melodies in mind... But there is no place on earth where they have not been played at one time or another. Those of us who remember...a finer music must try now to play it, and encourage others, if we can, to sing along."
Alan Moore // "What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?"
Bruce Lee // "When one has reached maturity...one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving into water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style."
Dalai Lama // "World peace must develop from inner peace."
Audrey Tautou // "I am untamed. I don’t like to be squeezed into the system and I don’t like superficial conversation. I am very bad with that. I don’t have the talent to talk for nothing."
Philippe Petit // "I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. I know the wire and I know my limits. I am a madman of details."
Anthony Bourdain // "Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living."
James Baldwin // "Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone... Most of us are not compelled to linger with the knowledge of our aloneness, for it is a knowledge that can paralyze all action in this world. There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed. None of these things can be done alone. But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place."