Quotations

"Ramakrishna once said that if all you think of are your sins, then you are a sinner. And when I read that, I thought of my boyhood, going to confession on Saturdays, meditating on all the little sins that I had committed during the week. Now I think one should go and say, ”Bless me, Father, for I have been great, these are the good things I have done this week.“ Identify your notion of yourself with the positive, rather than with the negative."

— Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, born 1904

"If I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?"

— Naomi Campbell, English supermodel, born 1970

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."

— Albert Camus, French author, philosopher, born 1913

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

— Albert Camus, French author, philosopher, born 1913

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

— Albert Camus, French author, philosopher, born 1913

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."

— Albert Camus, French author, philosopher, born 1913

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

— Jack Canfield, American motivational speaker, born 1944

"In Mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it."

— Georg Cantor, German mathematician, born 1845

"I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life."

— Robert Capa, Hungarian war photographer, born 1913

"After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil."

— Karel Capek, Czech writer, born 1890

"It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective. There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs your roots: then you will understand that you are here only through a miracle, and you will remain fixed forever in wonderment and equilibrium."

— Karel Capek, Czech writer, born 1890

"Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease."

— Karel Capek, Czech writer, born 1890

"You can get a whole lot more done with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone."

— Al Capone, American gangster, born 1899

"In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped or resolved in a realm of quiet, well in advance of, or between, the actual clicking of shutters and the sloshing of films and papers in chemical solutions. I work to attain “a state of heart”, a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one’s vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit."

— Paul Caponigro, American photographer, born, 1932