"By the same token, the new and stringent Ultramontanism on the Catholic Left - in which even the mildest questions about how things are working in this pontificate are denounced as treasonous disloyalty - is an affront to the open conversation for which the pope [FRANCIS] has called."

“Viewed as drama, World War I is somewhat disappointing.”

“Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.”

Source : Mary Higgins Clark (2008). “Kitchen Privileges”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

“It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.”

Source : George F. Kennan (2012). “American Diplomacy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

“Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.”

Source : Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 2007.

“When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.”

Source : "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

“There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.”

“Thinking like we (always) have is what got us where we are. It is not going to get us where we are going.”

“I had this sister that was born who was given up for adoption, and I never knew it.”

Source : "Champion Gymnast's Hidden Life: Dominique Moceanu on Secret Sister" by Alison Lynn, abcnews.go.com. June 8, 2012.