Hope is a song in a weary throat.

True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.

What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.

One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.

If you want to be wise, learn wisdom from nature.

It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.

As I inch forward to embrace my life again by being mindful, writing books, and planning adventures, I sense my dad would approve. I know he would want me to be happy.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.

The thing about Iran is there are many political factions and it's not quite the dictatorial, authoritarian state with one person always making every single decision.

I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.

Having a book is actually like a great master - helping to build a universe and unify work - especially in my pictures where there is such a strong signature, yet with a set of rigorous rules to it.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot.

For whatever reason I was always obsessed with the potential of humanity's physicality. Especially since we grew up with such a non-physical philosophy.