I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Don't you stupid Aussies get it? Australia is doomed! Nothing, and nobody, can help you. You have sinned willfully after you have received knowledge of the truth.

Fred Phelps

The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

George Orwell

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

Berenice Abbott

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

William Shakespeare

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

Publilius Syrus

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Lucretius

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Thomas J. Cottle

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

George Santayana

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Richard Cecil

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Calvin Coolidge

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

Anna Deavere Smith

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

Tadao Ando