"If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?"

“Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.”

“Buried under the biggest burden is a good place to find an even bigger blessing.”

Source : Janette Oke (1989). “The Father of Love”, Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House Publishers

“The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.”

“We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.”

“We were iconoclastic. We weren't there to sort of follow the trends really. So it was important that we were making a statement against that.”

“Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back .”

“I refuse to discuss tabloid rumors,”

“I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.”

Source : D. Scott Atkinson, Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., William Merritt Chase (1987). “William Merritt Chase: Summers at Shinnecock 1891-1902”, Universe Publishing(NY)