"It was a sudden inspiration. But inspiration never came without a reason."

“I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.”

Source : "John Chamberlain, sculptor who used crushed-up cars, dies" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2011.

“As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so you're moving very quickly.”

“Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.”

“Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.”

“There’s a place inside of you where you can retreat and enjoy perfect stillness.”

“Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.”

Source : James Buchanan, James Buchanan Henry (1909). “The Works of James Buchanan: Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Private Correspondence”

“Don't bury your failures, let them inspire you.”

“Fathers teach their best lessons to their children by the way they handle life when confronted with adversities.”