...you shouldn't hate something you don't know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

It is true that the sky was always beautiful but I don't remember marvelling at sunset or gazing at the dawn of a new day. Survival does not allow time for poetic reflection.

For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.

Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can’t expect an unhealthy person to think logically.

Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

...you shouldn’t hate something you don’t know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.

We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us.

It is because baptism is a real insertion of human beings into the ascended manhood of Christ that the Church is Christ's own body, flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones.

The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under try not to go bald.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

Right when I was I was diagnosed my husband and I were actively trying for a family, which is heartbreaking for us both.

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.

Anyone look back at their high school career and just shudder at what you got away with and didn't die?

I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.

I was always looking outside of myself for stories and ideas and influences and then I kind of realized in 2010, that all of this time, I've developed a "sound." And I've never fully explored it.