For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.

You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.

When one cautions you, he is a 'lighthouse' and if one find faults with the lighthouse, when will that ship reach safely [to its destination]?.

Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

I want my daughters to be respected as human beings; that's the country I'm fighting for.

There's things people say in the barbershop they won't even say in their own living room, because it's just one of those zones where nobody's going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion.

I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this.

The spring sea rising and falling, rising and falling all day.