"Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream."

“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”

“You should make photographs with your heart, mind, eye & soul. The capture device is simply there to allow you to transfer your vision to a medium that you can share with others.”

“Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.”

Source : Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

“The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.”

“I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.”

Source : "Rep. Cole: I'm not for raising tax rates on anyone". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 28, 2012.

“To this day, I've never had an assistant. I really insist on doing everything myself because I value the role of the artist's hand so much in the process. But that means I have to learn it personally in order to do it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail."”

“To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.”