"I like the night. I like a slight terror to remind me how precious life is. Like I was sleeping with my smallest child and there were crazy coyotes howling outside. I knew how lucky I was to have her near me."

“Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course, the more closely he meets their needs, the less "persuasive" he has to be, but in no case does it make sense to speak as if his role is force submission. Rather it is to strengthen and uplift, to make people feel that they are the origins, not the pawns, of the socio-political system.”

Source : "Leadership: what every leader should know about people". Book by Robert A. Portnoy (p. 16), 1986.

“Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.”

“One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.”

Source : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

“The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.”

“I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking of true, stubborn, lifetime black-and-white photographers, as opposed to black-and-white as a photographic commodity.”

“A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'”

“I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.”

Source : "Watch a New Video for Sigur Rós' "Varúð", Directed by Ryan McGinley" by Crrie Battan, pitchfork.com. July 31, 2012.

“Woman work a great many miracles.”