"All my work comes out of my life."

“The important thing is not the camera but the eye.”

Source : Oral Roberts (1978). “The Daily Guide to Miracles”

“What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.”

“A poem is like a person. The more you know someone, the more you realize there is always something more to know and understand. A final understanding could probably only begin upon permanent separation, or death. This is why we come back to certain poems, as we do to places or people, to experience and re-experience, to see ourselves for who we truly are, and to continue to be changed.”

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“As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!”

“I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.”

“Christ did not make the atonement when he shed his blood upon the cross. Let this fact be fixed forever in the mind.”

Source : URIAH SMITH (1877). “THE SANCTUARY AND THE TWENTY-THREE HUNDRED DAYS OF DANIEL VIII. 14”

“Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success] would be meaningless without anyone to share it with.”

“I should always train in order to be at a higher level. Other fighters are training hard as well. I have to be a step or more ahead.”