"Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking."

“I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.”

Source : "Tig Notaro Is Not Afraid of the Dark". Interview With Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 26, 2016.

“My goal is to keep him away from that and play the match on my terms so that I can be aggressive and not hesitate.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk

“Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.”

“The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.”

“Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.”

“until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.”

“Let me make a point here, in case this isn't becoming extremely clear. My state has gun control laws. It did not keep Hennard from coming in and killing everybody! What it did do, was keep me from protecting my family! That's the only thing that cotton pickin' law did! OK! Understand that! That's ...that's so important!”

Source : "Hi Mark, your mention of Waco" by John Robie, www.cnet.com. April 17, 2007.

“The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.”

Source : Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic”, p.142, Courier Corporation