"Regardless of our age, experience, or station in life, we are all missionaries."

-- David A. Bednar

“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.”
“Above all others I pity the homeless: where can they go to masturbate?”
“And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at the touch of a human hand, and join their life with the pilot's own.”
“Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.”
“I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.”
“As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.”

Source : Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.164, Vintage
“One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.”
“It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.”

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