"Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one."

“Parents provoke their children to anger by not practicing biblical love, not considering their children as more important than themselves, and not dying to self to become a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

“I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff that just happens to be fast.”

“Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.”

“Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.”

“Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence ...”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2359, Delphi Classics

“I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.”

Source : "Bridget Foley’s Diary: Vera’s Vision". Interview with Bridget Foley, wwd.com. June 3, 2013.

“The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.”

“Japanese train signs, station signs, are really representative of the Japanese mind to me, because it always has the station where you are, the station you were previously at, and the station that is the next station. When I came to New York, I was very confused. It just doesn't say where I was and where I was going. But I realized after a while probably most people don't need to know what station you were previously at. But I think it's just some weird Japanese mentality that we need to know, we need to connect the plot.”