"I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition"

“I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.”

“Kids who are least impressive in my class are the ones who only listen to one kind of music. They only listen to country or only to rap or to gospel or anything. It's a sad thing. I try really hard to get them to go out and listen to things. It's amazing what you learn. ... I'm still trying to learn. It's not like I'm going to be a calypso singer. That's not going to happen, but I'm sure there's something in that, that I can learn from and apply to my own work.”

“I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked.”

“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.”

“They who know most of God on earth or heaven know that they know little after all; but they know that they may know more and more of Him throughout eternal ages.”

Source : James McCosh (2009). “First and Fundamental Truths”, p.170, Applewood Books

“It is important to understand what are you trying to capture with a camera. What you want to use this tool for. It helps to begin to search for and concentrate on thematic photography.”

“Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.”

Source : Bill Reid (2012). “Solitary Raven: The Selected Writings of Bill Reid”, p.111, D & M Publishers

“Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (2010). “Rebecca Harding Davis's Stories of the Civil War Era: Selected Writings from the Borderlands”, p.20, University of Georgia Press