"I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. "Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" "Terrified," he replies with a smile."

“The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”

“But actual rapists, men who are usually known to (and often loved by) their victims? Men who are sometimes our sports heroes, political leaders, buddies, boyfriends and fathers? Evidence suggests we don't despise them nearly as much as we should.”

“Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.”

“Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that we are able to attain, that every experience is dyed with its color. This is why, even in moment of joy, part of that joy is the seams of ore that are our sorrow. They burn darkly and beautifully in the midst of joy, and they make joy the complete experience that it is. But they still burn.”

Source : "By Love We Are Led to God" by Christian Wiman, bulletin.hds.harvard.edu. 2012.

“As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.”

“We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.”

“It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow & people started to listen so thank you.”

Source : "Sam Smith's Grammy Acceptance Speech For Best Pop Vocal Album Is One To Remember" by Joanna Adams, www.huffingtonpost.ca. February 8, 2015.

“If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog.”