"Ownership in the world I have none, but I have an infinite interest in it; for if not my own it is my God's; and so it is mine in a higher than a legal sense. Yes, this is the beauty, this is the whole sublimity, this is the tender delight of life - that it is of God's governing."

“Dad gave me two pieces of advice. One was, "No matter how good you think you are, there are people better than you." But he was an optimist too; his other advice: "Never worry about rejection. Every day is a new beginning."”

“The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary.”

“The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.”

“You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.”

Source : FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from May 17, 2014

“For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.”

“Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.”

Source : Bill Johnson (2015). “The Power That Changes the World: Creating Eternal Impact in the Here and Now”, p.54, Chosen Books

“Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.”

“Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.”