"Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell."

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Source : "Journal, 1932-1939". Book by François Mauriac, Table ronde, p. 278, 1947.

Francois Mauriac

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“It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political station. When a citizen gives his vote to a man of immorality , he abuses his civic responsibilty. He sacrifices not only his own interest but that of his neighbor, and he betrays the interest of his country.”
“You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robert Ringer from Oct 30, 2013
“I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot.”

Source : "I've always been the outsider" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2008.
“I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.”
“Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for them.”
“Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.”

Source : "Actor Diego Klattenhoff: On Knowing When to be Hard on Yourself and When to Let it Go". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.”
“But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand years. Why was that? What was it that he had faith in? It wasn't that nothin' would change. Which is what you might think, I suppose. He had to know better'n that. I've thought about it a good deal. . . And I have to say that the only thing I can think is that there was some sort of promise in his heart. And I don't have no intentions of carvin' a stone water trough. But I would like to be able to make that kind of promise. I think that's what I would like most of all.”

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