"It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him."

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”

“There is a special aura about artists who take their visions to the highest pinnacles of success ... I get very excited about the magnitude of the aura I see, when Alan performs.”

“Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a marsh. But we don't make it about saving life. The one thing that every single human being has in common is our need for water.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com

“Justice is the one thing you should always find.”

“I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.”

“One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule.”

Source : Ron Luciano, David Fisher (1984). “Strike Two”, G K Hall & Company

“'Above The Thunder' is passionate, wise, and piercingly beautiful. Readers drawn to books with rich, memorable characters and contemporary stories will find this remarkable debut novel not only irresistible but impossible to put down.”

Source : "'Above The Thunder' by Renee Manfredi", www.penguinrandomhouse.com. May 10, 2005.

“The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you”