Belgium, E19 Machelen

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

William Faulkner

Warsaw, Nuovo Swiat

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Michel Foucoult

Warsaw, Centrum

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Eugene Ionesco

Meer

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Winston Churchill

Antwerp, cathedral

“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”

Thomas Carlyle

Antwerp, Steenplein

Every picture is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

free after Giotto di Bondone

Denmark, sky yesterday

"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”

Buddha

Warsaw, presidential palace.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer.

Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

George Bernard Shaw

Awakening the senses.

Warsaw, Copernicus statue

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Warsaw, centrum

The Infinite Wisdom of the crowd, Is ignorance.To show true compassion for that, what they do not understand.

Frederik Kerling

Warsaw, Presidential Palace.

You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power.

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Warsaw, Royal Palace

Look into my eyes and you see the sun, listen to my voice and you're not alone, give me a kiss and the world is ours.

Warsaw, Nowy Swiat, Flower lady

I don't like European Union, because they hate the Pope. I love the Pope.

Polish musician, Russian Father and Polish Mother.

Warsaw, Palace of Culture & Science + Hard Rock Cafe

Walking thrue the streets of Warsaw it feels like Polish 'Zehn Zucht" is falling on you.

Alone in the streets, alone in the way we live, searching for a home and warm nest.

Warsaw, Pälace of Culture & Science

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Clive Barnes

Zurich Airport

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

Jay Leno

Lucern, Railcity

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Lucern

"While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster."

Abigail van Buren

Lucern, quai

Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.

Oscar Wilde

Lucern, by night.

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

Edgar Allan Poe

Lucern, Bridge, burned in the 1980's

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

David Russell

Maasmechelen, Outlet Village

“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”

Oscar Wilde

Maasmechelen village.

Whitout passion things can't change.

Patrick Dixon

Mechelen, Lamot

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

Albert Einstein