"Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point."

“Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.”

“The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.”

Source : Washington Gladden (1876). “Being a Christian: what it Means and how to Begin”

“An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.”

Source : David Frum (2003). “The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush”, p.164, Random House

“In the Apostolic Exhortation 'Amoris Laetitia,' Pope Francis speaks only in one point about homosexual tendencies. As did the last synod, the Holy Father speaks about the question of how to handle the situation when, in the family, a member of the family discovers him or herself having a homosexual tendency.”

Source : "Cardinal Schonborn on 'Amoris Laetitia': Pope Francis Knows What He Is Talking About". Interview with Deborah Castellano Lubov, zenit.org. April 12, 2016.

“...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?”

Source : Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.103, Penguin

“It's never too late to start. It's always too late to wait.”

Source : Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.39, Greenleaf Book Group

“Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.”

“men will have to resign themselves to the fact that the old-time saloon, for men only, will never again exist. Once a woman has felt a brass rail under her instep, there can be no more needlepoint footstools for her.”

Source : Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf