“We wouldn't be where we are today without the vision, commitment and hard work of people like Phil who understood from the beginning how public funding for the arts advances our society and enriches our democracy - making life better for all Americans.”

“Nick brings an invaluable understanding of technology and emerging platforms with more than 20 years of senior management experience to our team. We are thrilled to have Nick help drive our vision for advancing the wave of user-generated media and digital content creation.”

“The church's family program, in the final analysis, is God's program. In this sense, the church's proposal, while assuming the positive aspects of the United Nations' proposal, goes further, not in the sense that it sacrifices determined values and needs of so-called modernity, but in the sense that it offers a broader and richer vision.”

“The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.”

“What we are looking for is a new way of being seen. The desired effect is a narcissistic gain, a boost to stimulate our self-image. This exterior vision of ourselves is reminiscent of the way we were first looked at by our parents. This is the base on which our personality is constructed.”

“It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.”

“What this task requires in the way of higher intellectual gifts is a sense of unity and a power of judgement, raised to a marvelous pitch of vision, which easily grasps and dismisses a thousand remote possibilities an ordinary mind would labor to identify, and wear itself out in doing so.”

“The two of us worked together and lived together for 46 years. We shared not just a lifetime, but the ideals, values and the visions he had. I felt that those things were just too important to let die. I had to keep them alive.”

“He's very patient and has really good vision. He'll sit there, sit there, find his hole and take it, which is different from a lot of backs in the league who just focus on making one cut and hitting the hole. He sees the whole field.”

“[An ABC Online report backed up Nicholson's story, naming Phil Quin as the spokesman employed by the family to field media enquiries, and quoting him saying] his peripheral vision is nil. ... but the estimates are that his eyesight is reduced to about 5 per cent or so.”