"Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder."

“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

“I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. I will always seek God. Some people find God in church. Some people find God in nature. Some people find God in love; I find God in suffering. I’ve known for some time what my life’s work is, using my hands as tools to relieve suffering.”

Source : "Kayla Mueller's parents appeal to ISIS: 'We are still hopeful'" by Ben Brumfield, Jomana Karadsheh, www.cnn.com. February 7, 2015.

“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”

“Stop hoping, start believing.”

“Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.”

“When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.”

“As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.”

“Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.”

Source : "Africa’s Olympic Potential" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.