"Make sure you want it enough."

“Everyone has a different route to success, recognition, and peace. Don't be afraid to move instinctually.”

“The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of the past evolves. Distant events grow beyond mere history and take on the weight of legend.”

“Tomorrow, you're always a day away.”

Source : "Tomorrow" (song) (1977)

“It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.”

“Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!”

“And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.”

Source : Wladyslaw Szpilman (2011). “The Pianist”, p.145, Hachette UK

“If you think your best days are behind you, they are. If you think your best days are ahead of you, they are.”

“A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.”