"We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do."

“Politicians responsible for enacting civil same-sex marriage legislation are morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin.”

Source : "Bishop: Lawmakers 'morally complicit' in sins of same-sex couples" by Ray Long, www.chicagotribune.com. November 21, 2013.

“That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.”

“Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't”

“At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.”

Source : John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”

“But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.”

Source : Olive Ann Burns (2007). “Cold Sassy Tree”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.”

“Especially when I first came up here to New York, everybody wanted to hook me up with this guy who's Prince's sound engineer. Almost everybody wanted me to hook up with him and go to L.A. and do all that just because that's the route Prince took. And for a while I was listening to all of that. "Yeah, if it's good enough for Prince, it should be good enough for me." But I mean, that's not the case, really. Prince is a different person than I am. You just got to find the right person for you, whoever you click with.”

“The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in a room with someone and you don't have awkwardness.”