If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

Edward Weston

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Anon., Nepalese saying

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Harry S. Truman

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Margot Asquith

I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

J.K. Rowling

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

Oscar Wilde

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

Hesiod

The field of the soul must be watered by the rain with tears of love; otherwise it will become a desert.

Sorin Cerin

Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.

Lewis H. Lapham