Iconic Birthday Quotes From The Famous And Infamous Born On This Day In History

"If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me"

"Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why"

"Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life"

"What is now proved was once only imagined"

"He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise"

"Everything to be imagined is an image of truth"

"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough"

"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death"

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend"

"We sat down on the very edge of the wall, and strove in vain to penetrate the mystery by which we were surrounded. Who were the people that built this city"

"Decadence in the arts obviously cannot be separated from its social context: bourgeois society heading toward a crisis at the turn of the century"

"When only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still"

"One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others"

"Happy people are poor psychologists"

"Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence"

"Love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating"

"The less one notices happiness, the greater it is"

"It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will"

"A writer survives in spite of his beliefs"

"Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic"

"Hell is just stupidity..... a gross assault on the sensitivities of the least"

"I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had"

"Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important"

"Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone"

"I didn't want to be a big record mogul and all that stuff. I just wanted to write songs and make people laugh"

"I marched so everyone, regardless of colour, could become a first-class citizen"

"There was this tension with her. Our scenes were built with tension, and there it was, even before the camera rolled"

"I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot"

"You can get awful famous in this country in seven days"

"People get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about"

"People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven"

"Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities"

"Life is nutty; Anything can happen"

"You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else"

"I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight"

"I can’t think of anything more important to all of us than our kids and their future. And to me, space exploration is all about open-ended, never-ending opportunities for our young people"

"Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker"

"Remember to be as smart as you are"

"Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place"

"Death is not my best subject"

"No one else's opinions could derail me"

"No one else's opinions could derail me"

"Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction"

"Be reckless enough to gamble all or nothing to follow your dreams"

"I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges"

"No 'rules.' What are you, British or something? I guess I'm too nice... No wonder people take advantage of me"

"Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic"

"Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion"

"I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance"

"I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on"

"Insomnia is my greatest inspiration"

"It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me"

"I just know I'm going to be an actress. I want it so bad"

"I pride myself on breaking any box that anyone wants to put me in"

"I'm definitely an elbow-room guy"

"All we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes"

"Change is a natural form of progression"

"It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it"

"Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in"