"Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better."

“Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.”

Source : "Willy Ronis obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.

“Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.68

“Before you can get what you want, you have to know what you want,and make a game plan to get it”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 04, 2015

“The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.”

“It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.”

“In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.”

“Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.”

“At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.”