"Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity."

“To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.”

Source : Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.8, Courier Corporation

“The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.”

“If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.”

“Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.”

“There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves.”

“I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.”

“I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.”

“The inter-relationships between people have always fascinated me, as a director. And particularly those who are battlers in life, those who are on the fringes of life, they've always fascinated me, and I've always loved working on those characters.”

Source : "Epiphanies: George Ogilvie, Director and Pilgrim". "The Spirit of Things" with Rachael Kohn, www.abc.net.au. December 03, 2006.