"What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose."

“Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.”

“Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.”

Source : Song: The Internationale

“I think when you practice photography or observation, you're on high alert. You polish up your antenna and stick up your head, and you're out there. You're receptive, appreciative of details. It heightens reality. You're trying to step into your alertness.”

Source : "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

“Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.”

“The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.”

“I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.”

Source : "Rapped up in tweed" by Simon Mills, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2008.

“The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.”

Source : Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.236, Lulu.com

“Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women.”