Daniel Pennac Quotes

I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.

You have to make your own decisions. That's what the freedom in America is all about.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.

If it looks like fun, and it looks like quality, then I'll do it. I don't feel compelled to work - or not to work.

If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.

I just do what I want to do. I look at what's interesting to me.

I always try and decide what I'm interested in, and I just do that.

Everyone should have the freedom and opportunity to shape their own destiny.

When you are training, you are doing what you want to do.

I do only what I like. If we do something we don't like, we will become someone else.

You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough.

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

I cannot go and tell women what to wear and what not to wear; you have to decide on your own.