"More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people."

“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”

“often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.”

“There have been errors in the administration of the most enlightened men.”

“Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene - simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus.”

Source : Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

“I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.”

“An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.”

“The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. Statement of the second law of thermodynamics, 1862”

“I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.”