"Keep your character several steps ahead of your talent"

“The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.”

“Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.”

“The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means to give up one's bad habits, to root out of the heart all that ties us to the world; not to cherish bad desires and thoughts; to quench and suppress bad thoughts; to avoid occasions of sin; not to do or desire anything from self-love but to do everything out of love for God. To deny oneself means, according to the Apostle Paul, to be dead to sin and the world, but alive to God.”

“Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.”

“When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.”

“whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.”

Source : Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.122

“It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.”

“The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.”