Sometimes we need to step away from our current reality in order to truly appreciate it.

The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible

Children ought not to be victims of the choices adults make for them.

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner.

Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.

If you worry, you die. If you don't worry, you also die. So why worry?

I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.

As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.

You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.

I have learned that all you give is all you get, so give it all you got.

Usually, the subject matter of the image is not the subject of the work.

I cannot tell whether diamonds appeared in his eyes or mine as the shine of adoration became the icon one sees in history, a Byzantine sparkle, Medieval armor against all odds.

Being passionately curious about things give us the desire to want to learn, to explore and to seek opportunities to set goals and accomplish great things. It allows us to dream.

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?

Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.

Set a goal, write it down, and release the outcome. Small steps make a big difference.

If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.

We are all incredibly different and rather than being something to be ashamed of, that's something to really celebrate.

Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.

The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or whomever, are influenced by these books.

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.