"Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives."

“In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.”

“Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises.”

Source : Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui (2010). “I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced”, p.126, Broadway Books

“For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; asthough there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.”

“It's something I deal with to this day, a fear of falling back into that darkness. I see athletes go through a similar thing. ... With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.”

“Christ’s humanity occasions our divinity”

“Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.”

Source : Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1986). “The Marriage of Maria Braun”, p.202, Rutgers University Press

“I won't ask you if you ever received flowers from a man before. But it was my first, gifting flowers to a woman.”

“I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”