"Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade."

“November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.”

Source : Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

“Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."”

Source : Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

“We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty.”

Source : "Rudolph Rummel Talks About the Miracle of Liberty and Peace". The Freeman Interview, fee.org. July 1, 1997.

“If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.”

“It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars.”

“Only one thing is certian about coffee.... Wherever it is grown, sold, brewed, and consumed, there will be lively controversy, strong opinions, and good conversation.”

“I don't owe my success to state subsidies but to a faithful public which has sustained me.”

Source : "The French revolutionary". Interview with Tobias Grey, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

“When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.”