"I urge people to be a scientist about what they want and ask themselves why they want it so badly. Perhaps they are chasing an illusory dream. But if you want to learn, to expand, to be of service, you will find a way."

“Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.”

“In studying other cultures, we learn more about ourselves and our relationship to all things in this world.”

“Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.”

Source : Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

“Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport? It's not because the Catholic Church is falling apart.”

“Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.”

“My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.”

“Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.”

Source : Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The Progress of a Biographer”

“I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.”