People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares

Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.

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.

All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.