Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.