"Images work on so many different levels. As a writer you feel them, try not to get in their way or narrow them down to anything other or less complex. A writer is a curator of sorts - once you've brought the images together you try to stand at a respectful distance and let them speak for themselves. Try not to mess with their ambiguities and contradictions. They are what they are, irreducible. This is their integrity."

“More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.”

Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

“If we still advise we shall never do.”

“Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.”

Source : Nora Roberts (2012). “Charmed: The Donovan Legacy”, p.13, Penguin

“I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.”

“Physical strength in a woman - thats what I am.”

“The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.”

“A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.”

Source : "Lower Student Loan Interest Rates" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.