"We, the women and men of the Church, we are in the middle of a love story: each of us is a link in this chain of love. And if we do not understand this, we have understood nothing of what the Church is...."

“For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.”

Source : Nicholas Culpeper (1698). “The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, that Were Not in Any Impression Until This. Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation; Containing a Compleat Method of Physick, Whereby a Ma May Preserve His Body in Health, Or Cure Himself, Being Sick, for Three Pence Charge, with Such Things Only as Grow in England, They Being Most Fit for English Bodies. Herein is Also Shewed These Seven Things, Viz. 1. The Way of Making Plaisters, Oyntments, Oyls, Pultisses, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps Or Waters, of All Sorts of Physical Herbs, ... 7. The Way of Mixing Medicines According to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease, and Part of the Body Afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology”, p.273

“Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.”

“So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.”

“Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.”

“It's not all been rosy; I've had difficult situations where I've failed. But when you fail you learn a lot about yourself and come back stronger. The message is: life need not have limits. Having an opportunity in life is important but what defines you is what you do with that opportunity.”

“Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.”

“I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men.”

Source : George Lewis Prentiss, Elizabeth Prentiss (1987). “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss”

“If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.”

Source : Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.138, The New Press