"The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy."

“The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.”

“People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box”

“I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

“After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.150, Open Road Media

“I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.”

“I thought Sissy Hickey should be really skinny and leathery and have one of those really husky voices, but Del Shores kept saying, "I wrote this part for you." He took me to his house and showed me pictures of all his Texas relatives, and they looked exactly like my family.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.”

Source : "Best Story; Narrate Or Die" by A.S. Byatt, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.

“The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.”