"I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer."

“I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody.”

“Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.”

“The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need.”

“I am a musical-theater nut. When the lyrics, orchestration, and performance all come together just right, I come alive and can feel every cell in my body.”

Source : "The Exes’ Kelly Stables: Giving Her Heart to Faith, Motherhood, and the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.”

“A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.”

Source : Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka (1996). “On Social Structure and Science”, p.143, University of Chicago Press

“Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.”

“'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.”