Citizen Kane

"Nobody understands what it's like to have your life decided by someone else."

"He built me a palace, but it felt like a prison."

"Singing made me happy, before everything changed."

"I never wanted to be a star. Charles wanted that for me."

"He wanted me to be somebody I wasn't."

"I was a singer, you know. I had a beautiful voice."

"I have learned that all ambition ends in dust."

"Justice is a concept invented by the weak to restrain the strong."

"Creativity is the privilege of those unbound by consequence."

"Gratitude is what we feel only in hindsight."

"Perseverance in a losing cause is merely obstinacy."

"Death is the only appointment we cannot postpone."

"Beauty fades, but the memory of beauty torments forever."

"Dreams are the lies we tell ourselves about who we might become."

"Fear is the constant companion of the truly aware."

"Strength without compassion is merely brutality."

"Kindness costs nothing except the person who practices it."

"Patience is what we cultivate when we have already lost."

"Family binds us not through love but through inescapable history."

"Happiness is what eludes us precisely because we pursue it."

"Education taught me how to think; experience taught me that I was wrong."

"The only constant change in life is our resistance to it."

"I have been brave, and I have been a coward, often in the same hour."

"Solitude is not peace but the absence of distraction."

"A relationship is the slow death of individual dreams."

"Inspiration comes to us disguised as catastrophe."

"Motivation is merely another word for desperation."

"War is when men finally admit what they truly believe."

"Politics is the art of choosing which truth to hide."

"Literature alone preserves what life destroys."