“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

George Bernard Shaw

“My dad always said to me: ‘I wish you enough,’ ” she continues. “When I was young, I would say, ‘No, I don’t want to have enough! I want more!’ Now I understand. It’s learning to be content. Live with an open hand, not a tight fist.”

Michelle Yeoh

(From interview with Rebecca Sun)

You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, ‘Why didn’t I choose something else?’ But overall I’m pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

Gene Hackman

(1930-1925)

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lighting and the lightning bug.”

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

L.M. Montgomery

“Reality is an acquired taste, and I have spent a great deal of time and had a great deal of problems acquiring it.”

Matthew Perry (1969-2023)

In reality, the most important things happen when you don’t look for them.

Phil Donahue (1935 – 2024)

The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don’t we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are funny. Straights are funny. Women are funny. Men are funny. We are all funny, and we all do funny things. Let’s laugh about it.

Bob Newhart (1929 – 2024)

“Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!”

Donald Sutherland (1935-2024)

When Ozzy Osbourne was asked about The Beatles and why they were so important, he gave a relatively poignant answer. Talking in 2019, he said, “The only way I can describe it is like this: Imagine you go to bed today, and the world is black and white, and then you wake up, and everything’s in colour. That’s what it was like! That’s the profound effect it had on me.”