"I was going as soon as the ball hit the bat, it was lucky that it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to God I was safe."

“The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.”

“The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here that honesty no less than intensity of vision is the pre-requisite of a living expression. The fullest realization of this is accomplished without tricks of process or manipulation, through the use of straight photographic methods.”

Source : Paul Strand (1971). “Paul Strand: a Retrospective Monograph: The years 1915-1946”

“We see ourselves as filmmakers and as storytellers. We want to make films that move people emotionally. The most effective thing that cinema can do is get into people's hearts and have them see a new perspective on life - step inside someone else's shoes and mind for 90 minutes and experience the world in that way.”

Source : Source: www.rogerebert.com

“That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when it was proposed by Wegener. Nevertheless, we see that Wegener was right, and those who objected on the grounds of unavailable mechanism were wrong.”

“I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.”

“I really never felt any tremendous aggravation or separation.”

“By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.”

“The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises”