"I do less-fanciful reality. I celebrate the fat, the ugly, the women who can't get guys. I'm not trying to entertain you; I'm trying to make you passionate."

“Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.”

“I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.”

“When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.”

“When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.”

Source : "Iain Duncan Smith outlines yardsticks for success of social justice policy" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2012.

“I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.”

Source : Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.130, BoD – Books on Demand

“The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People might walk through me. And what is this moment of time, this particular day in which I have found myself caught? The growl of traffic might be any uproar - forest trees or the roar of wild beasts. Time has whizzed back an inch or two on its reel; our short progress has been cancelled. I think also that our bodies are in truth naked. We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.”

“I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.”

“In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.”