"Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence...and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas."

“Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.”

“The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.”

“There should be a separate line to scrutinize anybody with the name Abdul or Ahmed or Mohammed.”

Source : "Airport screening for 'Flying while Muslim'" by Nafees Syed, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2010.

“You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.”

Source : "A gentleman and a player" by Brian Oliver, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

“And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures”

“Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.”

“If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what we are constantly bombarded with in terms of media leads you to a creation of 'the Other' and a dehumanization of 'the Other,' and it's very much an us-versus-them conversation.”

Source : "15 Questions with Jehane Noujaim". Interview with Synne D. Chapman, www.thecrimson.com. May 14, 2008.

“...[K]now that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand Is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in fact... Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe....”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, James Karman, Una Jeffers (2009). “The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers: With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers”, p.65, Stanford University Press