"The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is."

“Never write more than two pages on any subject.”

“College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.”

Source : "The Illusion of Total Security". Radcliffe Commencement Address on June 16, 1954. The Atlantic Monthly, No.194, August 1954.

“There comes a moment when the silence between two people can have the purity of a diamond.”

“those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ...”

Source : Eliza Haywood (2004). “Fantomina and Other Works”, p.212, Broadview Press

“Mistrust is the fuel for so much mental pain, so many mental disorders. I am not talking here about the suspicions we sometimes have of one another, the distant but lurking sense that perhaps our lover lies to us, our best friend whispers behind our back. I am talking about a belief that betrayal inundates the atoms of the universe, is so woven into the workings of the world that every step is treacherous, and that below the rich mud lies a mine.”

Source : Lauren Slater (2012). “Welcome to My Country”, p.49, Anchor

“The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.”

“He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free of all pain? A graceful death—as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance.”