An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.

They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.

Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.

Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.

Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.

Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.

Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

Some bow to the spirit of collectivism, while you ascend to the spirit of your own eclectic rhythms.

People who insist upon dressing casually also want to think casually. And in a fallen world, thinking casually means being wrong more often than not.

I've got a Ferrari. VROOM! I do 104 from the garage to the front door.

Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live.

I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.

To understand how you live, to live. Do not think about it and live with it.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.