"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."

“If you don’t take responsibility for programming yourself, then someone else will.”

“We could have lost faith and just let this battle with cancer get the best of us, or I could give my daughter's battle with cancer a purpose and use my platform to try to raise as much awareness as possible.”

Source : "The ESPYs: The Only Awards Show That Matters" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. July 16, 2015.

“People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.”

“If you are religious, you believe that your religion is the 'right' one—and, in many cases, all others will be sent to hell. Similarly, a nationalist believes his or her nation is better or more advanced—and a racist believes that an inherent difference between each race make his or her ethnicity superior. All of these ideologies spawn the hate, philosophical disagreements, and prejudices that have been the catalysts for various atrocious acts throughout history.”

Source : FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Feb 17, 2015

“The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.”

Source : Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). “I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

“I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.”

“If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.”

“I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com