...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

There’s something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren’t.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

I am busy right now with my family, let alone all my other projects. It's an opportunity if it presents itself.

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

the territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace.

I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.

The way I pitch is the way I pitch. I'm not going to change my overall philosophy. I'll just go out and pitch.

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.