"What makes you push the shutter has to do with seeking a kind of perfection, a harmony in the world. You are instinctively aware it's there, but you've got to be completely alert and quick and so deeply awake that it moves you."

“Square astronaut, round hole. But somehow, I'd managed to push myself through it, and here was the truly amazing part: along the way, I'd become a good fit. It had only taken 21 years.”

Source : Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.157, Pan Macmillan

“I love to post behind-the-scenes photos of what is really going on. My twitter friends really seem to like that and the great thing is I can deliver them information right away.”

“But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.”

Source : Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

“P.P.S. I am giving you telepathic hugs. P.P.P.S. But not in a telepathically lezzie way.”

“No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.”

“There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.”

Source : "TED 2010 | Nicholas Christakis: Does This Social Network Make Me Look Fat?". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 12, 2010.

“Today's Multiple Choice Thought There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in: a. the bedroom b. the nursery c. the garden”

“Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?”