"Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work."

“If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. I had a life partner who thought my work was as important as his, and I think that made all the difference for me.”

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”

“I knew him, but I don't understand him.”

“Last night I dreamed that I came face to face with a picture I had done and forgotten, a forest done in simple movement, just forms of trees moving in space. That is the third time I have seen pictures in my dreams, a glint of what I am striving to attain.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.49, D & M Publishers

“I like going there for golf. America is one vast golf course today.”

“The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.”

Source : John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.230, Harvard University Press

“People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa.”

“To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.”