When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour.

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

To actively improve the worldand change your life as well, speak all the good you know, and all the bad refuse to tell.

Arabella tilted her head, and Theodore couldn't help himself. Her lips were right in front of him, and he needed to claim them. He settled his lips over hers and the world melted away.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

Never speak more clearly than you think.

Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?

I stand before you and my heart is in your hands, And I don't know how, I'd survive without your kiss, 'cause you've given me a reason to exist

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.