"Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream."

“Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”

Source : "The Wilderness Act". Public Law 88-577; 16 USC 1131-1136, September 3, 1964.

“But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.”

“I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.”

Source : "Frida Giannini: A Fashionable Life". Interview with Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 14, 2011.

“Learning is the art of ignoring.”

Source : Elias Canetti (1964). “Auto-da-fé”, New York : Stein and Day

“it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.”

Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.157, Oxford University Press

“To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.”

“If you only know one kriya, then share that. Just be humble, teach it. Every student is a teacher.”