"Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are."

“When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.”

Source : Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.100, tredition

“We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities.”

“It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.”

“Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.”

“Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.”

Source : John Berendt (2005). “The City of Falling Angels”, Penguin Group USA

“When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people”

“There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.”

“The more important point, however, is not about what the money does. It's about what has to be done to get the money. The effect of the money might be (democratically) benign. But what is done to secure that money is not necessarily benign. To miss this point is to betray the Robin Hood fallacy: the fact that the loot was distributed justly doesn't excuse the means taken to secure it.”