"Self-possession is the backbone of authority."

-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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“The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.”
“A plan that everyone dislikes for different reasons is a success. A plan everyone dislikes for the same reason is a failure. A plan that everyone likes for the same reason is an act of God!”
“You know my God. My God is called love”
“In America, there's this type of expectation of just-add-water celebrity, this type of, "Of course you found me; we're all going to be famous for 15 minutes," sort of Paris-Hilton-ization of society.”
“My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.”
“The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.”
“Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.”

Source : "It's One Of The Greatest Forms Of Entertainment We Have". Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com. March 8, 2011.
“Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.”

Source : Walter Kirn (1993). “She Needed Me”

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