| "Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it." Norman Douglas |
| "There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do." Sophia Loren |
| "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." Mark Twain |
| "I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'" Jordan Peterson |
| "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." Aristotle |
| "Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path." Baz Luhrmann |
| "You cannot have adoration without being criticised." Raf Simons |
| "Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count." Stella McCartney |
| "It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work." Emmy Rossum |
| "Work is making a living out of being bored." Karl Lagerfeld |
| "Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life." Yoko Ono |
| "There is no 'us' and 'them'; it's an illusion. We are all human beings, and we all have a responsibility to support one another and to discover ways of wresting the power from the very, very few people who control all the cash and all the property." Roger Waters |
| "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." Winston Churchill |
| "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties." Jules Renard |
| "Good design should be honest." Ferdinand Porsche |
| "Everyone has days when things can go wrong. That doesn't make you a bad pastry chef - that makes you human." Johnny Iuzzini |
| "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." Warren Buffett |
| "The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work." Michael Jackson |
| "You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second." Florence Welch |
| "The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive." Dave Chappelle |
| "I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'" Steven Wright |
| "The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected." Julian Casablancas |
| "I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." Albert Einstein |
| "Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time." H. P. Lovecraft |
| "Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting." Amy Adams |
| "Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there." Aretha Franklin |
| "When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it." Madonna |
| "The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process." Gianfranco Ferre |
| "Beauty is not just physical." Halle Berry |
