"God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild."

“You see history in the making and that is definitely the highlight. You get to meet these amazing sportsmen and women, and see them develop as individuals. You get to meet them when they're first coming into their sport. You watch them develop and you build up relationships with them.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk

“We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.”

“I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.”

Source : John Henry Mackay (2001). “John Henry Mackay: Autobiographical Writings”, p.11, Xlibris Corporation

“The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive”

“You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.”

“I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.”

Source : Ethel Smyth (1946). “Impressions that remained”

“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.”

Source : "Excerpt: 'The LIFE Guide to Photography'". abcnews.go.com. December 27, 2010.

“If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.”