"The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it."

“A Christ upon paper, though it were the sacred pages of the Gospel, would have been as powerless to save Christendom as a Christ in fresco; not less feeble than the Countenance which, in the last stages of its decay, may be traced on the wall of the Refectory at Milan. A living Christ is the key to the phenomenon of Christian history.”

“In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.”

Source : "Michele Bachmann's Holy War". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. June 22, 2011.

“Even when I look straight into the milky blue eyes I can't find myself any more. When did I stop being me?”

“You had my heart, and I yours; a heart for a heart, good fortune for good fortune.”

“To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.”

“Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.”

“There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.”

Source : Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.128, Harmony

“The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future”