"Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die."

-- Pierre Beaumarchais

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“Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.”
“Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.”
“I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.”
“At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.”
“For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.”
“After World War II, it seemed that humanity understood something, and nothing like that would happen again. Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood. The world can be better if there's love, tolerance and humility.”

Source : "Holocaust Hero Turns 97" by Jim Sciutto, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2007.
“True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.”

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