"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion for life."

Federico Fellini

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Art in any form is, and has been, and will always be our universal language, and we should do everything we can to protect its survival."

Penelope Cruz
The 2009 Academy Awards