We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.
A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the bounds of actuality the great Chinese poets accept the world exactly as they find it in all its terms and with profound simplicity they seldom talk about one thing in terms of another; but are able enough and sure enough as artists to make the ultimately exact terms become the beautiful terms. ’