"Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good."

“I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.”

“A fish is free as long as it stays in the water. If it suddenly declares that it wants its freedom to fly in the air like a bird, disaster occurs. A train is free as long as it stays on the track. However, if it demands freedom to take off down a major highway, the result is destruction and devastation. We too can only experience true freedom in its fullest if we remain within the framework of freedom. Often this requires accepting responsibility and practicing discipline.”

“Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

“All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.”

Source : "Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic". Book by Giordano Bruno edited by Richard J. Blackwell and‎ Robert de Lucca, 1584.

“The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.”

“I know that God is using me in ways beyond my comprehension.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com

“The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.”

“There is no bad weather, just soft runners.”