"You – help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects."

“Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.”

“Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.”

“People need to get involved in their neighborhood groups and the many housing reform groups that are out there. We need to hold our elected officials accountable and push them to create legislation that protects tenants and keeps people in their homes. Our governments - local, state and federal - also need to allocate resources to enforce the fair housing laws that are already on the books.”

“God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.”

Source : Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.38, Rowman & Littlefield

“What’s your cause? Does it move you to tears? What is it that moves you passionately?”

“Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for”

Source : David Starr Jordan (1896). “The Care and Culture of Men: A Series of Addresses on the Higher Education”

“I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist”

Source : "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

“My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.”