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“Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.”
Source : Anne M. Lyden, Paul Strand, Weston J. Naef (2005). “Paul Strand: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.5, Getty Publications
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“I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race...If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible...”
Source : "Imperial racism". "The Story of Africa" by BBC World Service, www.bbc.co.uk. February 19, 2007.
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“It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.”
Source : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (2000). “Respect: An Exploration”, p.4, Basic Books
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“Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.”
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“I fought windmills with such heavy weapons that I risked dislocating my arm ...”
Source : Fanny Lewald, Hanna Ballin Lewis (1992). “The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography”, p.301, SUNY Press
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“Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.”
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“Death,' whispered Tarlar, 'you do not fear it, Fell? By water, or any other way?' 'What is to fear?" answered the black wolf. 'If it is an end, then so be it. For there is no pain in that, except the pain left to the living... And if death is not an end, then what more than a wonderful journey...”
