"In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition."

“The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.”

“I am fully equipped for the Divine Plan of my life,”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc

“Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.”

“To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically , I can say that photography is the art of writing with time.”

“A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.”

“I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.”

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

“If you are going to do kaizen continuouslyyou've got to assume that things are a mess. Too many people just assume that things are all right the way they are.   Aren't you guys convinced that the way you're doing things is the right way? That's no way to get anything done. Kaizen is about changing the way things are.   If you assume that things are all right the way they are, you can't do kaizen. So change something!”

“Shame can be self-indulgence too.”

Source : Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins