"It is higher and nobler to be kind."

“The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.”

Source : E.L. Doctorow (2015). “Citizen Doctorow, Notes on Art & Politics: The Nation Essays 1978-2015”, p.56, The Nation Co. LLC

“Things explain each other, not themselves.”

Source : George Oppen, Rachel Blau DuPlessis (1990). “The Selected Letters of George Oppen”, p.115, Duke University Press

“The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.”

“Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.”

“Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.”

“Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.”

“A very little key will open a very heavy door.”

Source : Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories”, p.358, Wordsworth Editions

“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.”

Source : "Turning On The Light At Times Of Loss" by Anne Naylor, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.