Katharine Hepburn // "If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."
Bill Murray // "Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying."
Carl Sagan // "What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time."
John McCain // "The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it...I hate to leave it. But I don’t have a complaint. Not one. It’s been quite a ride. I’ve known great passions, seen amazing wonders, fought in a war, and helped make a peace. I’ve lived very well and I’ve been deprived of all comforts. I’ve been as lonely as a person can be and I‘ve enjoyed the company of heroes. I’ve suffered the deepest despair and experienced the highest exultation. I made a small place for myself in the story of America and the history of my times... The bell tolls for me. I knew it would. So I tried, as best I could, to stay a 'part of the main.' I hope those who mourn my passing, and even those who don’t, will celebrate as I celebrate a happy life lived in imperfect service to a country made of ideals, whose continued service is the hope of the world. And I wish all of you great adventures, good company, and lives as lucky as mine."
Bette Davis // "If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you."
Pablo Neruda // "All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are."
Patti Smith // "No one expected me. Everything awaited me."
Marcel Marceau // "I don't want our youth to become anti-romantic. We have to make room for the soul."
Juliette Binoche // "In order to create, the need to express has to be bigger than the fear."
Keith Richards // "If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?"
Jack Kerouac // "I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down."
Elizabeth Taylor // "I found quite early on that...I did my best work by being guided, not by being forced. And I suppose that really is just the child in me, wanting to be allowed to grow and develop at my instinctual sort of pace."