"Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest."

“On the whole I woke up in the morning and was happy to be alive.”

“Stop giving someone else the job of making you happy.”

“I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice always."”

Source : Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.93, WaterBrook

“I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.”

“The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.”

Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.242, Transaction Publishers

“From this moment forward…I stop the blame game and excuses. I am responsible for my life and for where I am today. I cannot blame the people and circumstances in my past, and I refuse to hide behind my past mistakes.”

“If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.”

“God needs blood to fix the universe, but only his own blood had enough magical power to do it, so he gave himself a body and then killed it.”