“As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.” / Andy Warhol

“I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don’t deny the past, but it’s a page to turn.”

Juliette Binoche.

“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.”

Jack Kerouac.

“Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.”

Werner Herzog.

“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.”

James Baldwin.

“Do not be a magician. Be magic.” - Leonard Cohen.

“The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.”

Morgan Freeman.

“Your life’s a nanosecond; if you have a contribution to make, then make it. Don’t bitch about it, just do it.”

Richard Serra.

“Music is powerful. Love is powerful. Poetry is powerful. Art is powerful. Be powerful.” - Alice Coltrane

“My approach to what I do in my job, and it might even be the approach to my life, is that everything I do is the most important thing I do.” - Mads Mikkelsen

“You owe it to all of us to get on with what you’re good at.”

W.H. Auden

Angelina Jolie by Matt Gunther, 1998.

“I am the me I choose to be.” - Sidney Poitier.