"But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so loved and understood Mozart be regarded as such.)For humor is a mysterious but unmistakable charism inseparable from Catholic faith, and neither the "progressives" nor the "integralists" seem to possess it - the latter even less than the former."

-- Hans Urs von Balthasar

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“Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.”
“If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.”

Source : "Michael Arndt Digs Into ‘Toy Story 3’ and the Genius of the Pixar System". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 07, 2010.
“Enough of satire; in less harden'd times Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes. I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave, Who yet have trembled at the strokes she gave; Whose souls have felt more terrible alarms From her one line, than from a world in arms.”
“I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.”

Source : "Across the Busy Years: Recollections and Reflections". Book by Nicholas Murray Butler, Volume 1, 1939.
“Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.”
“The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.”

Source : William Kent Krueger (2014). “Ordinary Grace: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster
“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.”

Source : Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.37, Ballantine Books
“Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.”

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