"Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist."

“When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.”

“I guess, we were people who just dedicated to trying to get better.”

Source : "5 Simple Lessons From 40 Years At The Same Job" by Dave Bookbinder, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2016.

“If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.”

“A persons outer action reflects their inner mind.”

“The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.”

“At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom - but I have them tailored.”

“We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was so ordinary. Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it's called documentary, which I suppose is all right ... We just took pictures that cried out to be taken.”

Source : Ben Shahn (1972). “Ben Shahn”

“Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!”

Source : "Gustavo Dudamel: 'I'm not the messiah" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2010.