When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.

If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.

If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.

Brain without heart is far more dangerous than heart withoutbrain.

Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.

In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

I reflect back on my mom's journey, someone who was an immigrant to Canada and came not knowing anything and figured it out tremendously. I reflect back on that a lot.

Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.