Top Quotes

When you’re playing a character, you have to believe everything about them.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

A room is not a room without natural light.

I know where I’m going, and I know that I’m going to get there, and that’s half the battle.

Photography is not about the photographer, it is about what the photographer chooses to show.

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

I don’t believe in the word ‘tolerance’ because it implies that I am superior to you.

The truth will eventually come out, but we often have to wait for it.

I am a 100% individualist. That’s my principle.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

You can’t really be an artist if you don’t take the trouble to speak about things that matter.

Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether they’ll work or whether they won’t.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul—and sings the tune without the words—and never stops at all.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

To me, journalism is more about being curious than being right.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

You can only take your opponents to the point where they will give you the victory.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to be useful.