"It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free."

“Dissonance cannot be corrected by criticism.”

“The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.”

“The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.”

“You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.”

“As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.”

“When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.”

Source : "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 28), 1982.

“Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.”

“For me, family has always come first.”