"It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception."

“Masturbation never got anybody pregnant, does not make anybody go crazy, and what we're about is preventing HIV in our bright young people.”

Source : "Dr. Joycelyn Elders: Marijuana, Masturbation and Medicine". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2010.

“Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.”

“Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service... I mean, there's no use throwin' a TV set out the window for the sake of throwin' a TV set out the window. But if you get a lousy picture then you have an excuse”

“A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.”

“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.”

“There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

“So we live in an accelerating possibility curve.  Perhaps we can't control it, but we can learn to ride it like a surfer on a wave or a bird on a thermal, to use its power to take us where we want to go - to live in uncertainty and yet act with confidence.”

“It's literally murder on the dancefloor.”