But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene.