"What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom."

“My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but it's not just the medium that's important, it's about what you are trying to say.”

Source : "Global Citizen". Scouts Interview, July/August 2010.

“Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect seem less honest to me.”

Source : John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

“New York is one of man's greatest achievements.”

“Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all,”

Source : "This #WomensEqualityDay, Remember What Your Vote Means" by Charleta B. Tavares, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2016.

“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”

“Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used tobe." But that doesn't mean the malaise and anxiety people feel about modern families are delusions, that everything would be fine if we would only realize that the past was not all it's cracked up to be. . . . Even if things were not always right in families of the past, it seems clear that some things have newly gone wrong.”

“The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.”

“Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.”