"With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'"

“I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness”

“I always say nothing you can imagine is totally impossible. It might be unlikely, but that's as far as I'll go.”

Source : Emily Rodda (1989). “The Pigs Are Flying”, Camelot

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”

Source : William Blum (2006). “Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower”, p.13, Zed Books

“You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.”

Source : "'Songs I Can Sing Ya': An Interview with Andy Kim and Kevin Drew". Interview With Evan Sawdey, www.popmatters.com. February 24, 2015.

“Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.”

“Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.”

“Because I know war... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it. .........After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this...”

“Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.”

Source : Edward Noyes Westcott (2012). “David Harum A Story of American Life”, p.9, tredition