“Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.”

“What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life”

“Surrender… sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed”

“Life may contain the "essence" (what else could?); recollection, the repetition in imagination, may decipher the essence and deliver to you the "elixir"; and eventually you may even be privileged to "make" something out of it, "to compound the story." But life itself is neither essence nor elixir, and if you treat as such it will only play its tricks on you.”

“Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about.”

“The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.”

“The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.”

“That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.”

“It's because I wait, I wait until it's there again. Whatever is there [in the eye of the camera] is a truth, but a truth you have to believe in. What you see in front of you is a fact. You click when you believe it's the truth. The information is waiting to become in essence a concentration, concentrated so clearly that it can be projected back into real life, into your recognition. It could be any size.”

“In essence, your eyes don't show you what you see they show you what you believe.”