"The best advice I ever received was to not rush time. Things will present themselves when the time is right."

“For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.”

“Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.”

“Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.”

“The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on your own. You can grow strong on your own. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.”

“The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.”

Source : "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

“I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.”

“People need to feel safe to talk without their ideas being criticized, judged, demeaned, or mocked.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com

“My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com