The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.

Anna Lindh

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

Everything transitory is but an image.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

Sheldon B. Kopp

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

Charlie Kaufman

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?

Barry Deutsch

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Weaklings must lie.

Jean Paul Richter

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

George Halas

Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being.

Susan Sontag, The Double Standar

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

Audre Lorde

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

John Donne