"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required."

“Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.”

Source : "All Police Interrogations Should Be Tape-Recorded" by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. October 08, 2012.

“God's providence is not in baskets lowered from the sky, but through the hands and hearts of those who love him. The lad without food and without shoes made the proper answer to the cruel-minded woman who asked, "But if God loved you wouldn't he send you food and shoes?" The boy replied, "God told someone, but he forgot."”

Source : George Arthur Buttrick (1951). “The Interpreter's Bible: General articles on the New Testament. Matthew. Mark”, Abingdon Pr

“I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.”

“By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment.”

“The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.”

“I would give female filmmakers the same advice I’d give any filmmaker; believe in your vision, believe in your team, believe in yourself.”

Source : "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Leanne Pooley". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. September 6, 2013.

“Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.”

“A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.”