"News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself."

“Jesus' blood was shed for us all; what remains is for us to accept His sacrifice in faith and obedience.”

“Even the smallest light can grow until there’s no darkness left.”

Source : Gena Showalter (2013). “Beauty Awakened”, p.437, HQN Books

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.”

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

“Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.”

“Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if we live with all our might with the thirty or forty people next to us, telegraphing kindly to all other people, to be sure? Can it be possible that our passion for large cities, and large parties, and large theatres, and large churches, develops no faith nor hope nor love which would not find aliment and exercise in a little "world of our own"?”

“Painting is very interesting.”

Source : "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Sam Waterston". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. July 12, 2004.

“I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.”