"But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul."

“I look forward to the day when animals will have the right to run if they have legs, swim if they have fins, and fly if they have wings.”

“A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.”

Source : "Mike Huckabee's Record on Women's Rights Faces Increased Scrutiny". www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2007.

“Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.”

“Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.”

Source : "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

“I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.”

“I think, when you're a young composer, you're told constantly that what you're supposed to do is figure out what your voice is. "What is your thing supposed to sound like?" You know: "What's the thing you do," that everyone can recognizably tell from a long distance is you and then you're supposed to be in search of that marker and you're supposed to find it and you're supposed to live there for the rest of your life. And it seemed to me, from a young age, that was what I was encouraged to do. You find a sound and that's your sound! That's what you do.”

“Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.”