“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!” – Jack Kerouac, author
“Women became the headline, the social change of my adulthood.” — Ellen Goodman, Columnist
“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.” — Janis Joplin, Singer
“Cross your heart and kiss your elbow.” — Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Film 1961
“You’re still reaching for the moon….’No, father, the moon is reaching for me.” - Sabrina, Film 1954
“Oh, but Paris isn’t for changing planes, it’s for changing your outlook! For throwing open the windows and letting in… letting in la vie en rose.” — Sabrina, Film 1954
“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.” – Jack London
“Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity…” — Gilda Radner, Actress
“We were poets and painters, all just a little more or a little less twenty years old, supplied with a precious load of thoughtless madness that needed to be used, to expand, to explode.” — Pablo Neruda, Chilean Poet
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” — EE Cummings, American Poet
“It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.” — Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister