"To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I`m singing - whatever I`m singing. I missed it when I left it."

“The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth.”

“Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.”

“A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief. Beds slept in and meals eaten, and the bliss and pain of the body, and a view of summer leaves from a window on a morning it had rained; the nights of loneliness and the nights of love, the soul in it's body keeping always longing to be known.”

Source : Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage”, p.718, Hachette UK

“I feel great physically. I feel really good.”

Source : "She's lighter 'in a lot of ways'" by James Rainey, articles.latimes.com. November 18, 2009.

“In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.”

“Each new moment presents an opportunity for conscious choice. We can choose to let go of the past. We can choose to be here now. We can choose to accept responsibility for ourselves. . . . We can choose to awaken. Or we can choose to remain asleep and unconscious.”

“You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable.”

“Flirting with death is the spice of life.”

Source : Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.366, Univ of California Press