"If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist."

“The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best. It's the power from on high that comes down into the world, that wells up from the rock-bottom worst of the world like a hidden spring. Can you believe it? The last, best thing is the laughing deep in the hearts of the saints, sometimes our hearts even. Yes. You are terribly loved and forgiven. Yes. You are healed. All is well.”

“If you can't trust your president to get the right information on a Googleable fact, then can you really trust him with the harder stuff? Which, by the way, is everything else the president of the United States has to deal with.”

“I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am”

“Sometimes it's not about speed about power, it's about up here man [points to his head]. All these guys are not with me mentally.”

“Bavaria is a dynamic, cosmopolitan state. Those who don't adapt fall behind.”

Source : "'We Want a Solution to the Immigration Problem'". Interview with Markus Feldenkirchen and Ralf Neukirch, www.spiegel.de. September 16, 2016.

“Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.”

“I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.”

“It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.”

Source : Interview with Merlin Chowkwanyun, www.counterpunch.org. August 14, 2003.