"If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'"

-- Tom Cruise

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“[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty of government to foster, and encourage it among all the citizens and subjects. This is a point wholly distinct from that of the right of private judgment in matters of religion, and of the freedom of public worship according to the dictates of one's conscience.”
“I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.”
“At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.”
“Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.”

Source : Simon Schama (1988). “The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age”, p.189, Univ of California Press
“It's very important to remain optimistic and to see the silver lining in everything you do. Because no matter how sometimes things look difficult, and look like there is no hope, there is always a small glimmering of silver lining that is in everything, and I always look for that, and hang on that, and before I know it, another day comes and is gone.”
“Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.”

Source : Gao Xingjian (2000). “Soul Mountain”
“Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.”
“There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.”

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