"Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do."

“I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.”

Source : "Kerry Hopes To Defy Skeptics Of Mideast Peace Talks". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 31, 2013.

“People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.”

“I would like to be a polyglot.”

“To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.”

Source : Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.184, Beacon Press

“The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments that exalt the human community while offering no protection to the non-human modes of being. There is an urgent need for a Jurisprudence (system of governance) that recognizes that the well-being of the integral world community is primary, and that human well-being is derivative - an Earth Jurisprudence.”

“Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.”

“Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.”

“I'm in the art world so I use the art world a lot - or art world people as actors. I've also used television to criticize what I see on television. And now a lot of my work is made from the internet and a lot of it is made on my phone.”