"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

“Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.”

“I don't like getting hit for one, although you know I did take Aikido for many years, but Aikido is a different kind of martial art, maybe even a more cerebral art because it's all about redirecting the energies of your opponent instead of trying to bash your opponent's head in effectively, so it's a much more loving art, so I guess I tend that way normally anyway.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.”

Source : Song: Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine

“I'm taking (the training) a little more seriously than I normally would to speed up the process. I don't care if people say I was a surprise pick. I feel like it's an honor and the people who made the decision to put me on the team know what they are talking about. To play for your country is something you can hold on to the rest of your life.”

“I don't really know how to do casual clothes”

“No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.”

Source : Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

“I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.”

Source : Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

“The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.”