"If you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder."

“There is not one piece of artwork I have ever done that lived up to the vision I had for it in my head. That's why I keep on trying. Maybe someday I'll do it. I don't want to be in the past. I want to get to the next thing.”

“Human mercy is proof of having received divine mercy.”

“If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”

Source : "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays (p. 37 - 38), 1928.

“I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.”

“People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.”

“Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust.”

Source : Violet Fane (1880). “Collected Verses”

“One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 20, 2014.

“I never liked sleeping; I always think I am missing something.”

Source : "Costa's Calvin Klein". Interview with Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 22, 2008.