Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun.

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

With every calling comes the anointing you need to be able to stand firm in the situations that you will have to face

Sometimes believing is a matter of deciding. Deciding who you’re going to trust and what you know about who you trust.

The harder the struggle, the bigger the gain. The important thing is to stick with it, repetitively and consistently.

They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have.

Faith is the fool's excuse.

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.