"For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development are less likely to end up delinquent, involved in crime, unemployed and so on."

“In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.”

“Canada is useful only to provide me with furs.”

“It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.”

“What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.”

Source : "Sobornost". Book by Catherine Doherty, 1977.

“That’s how we often react when grace comes at us. It’s awkward. God offers us something that’s too good to be true—unearned, unmerited, total forgiveness—and we stand there, stiff and uncomfortable, waiting for the embrace to stop so we can get back to the business of earning our way into heaven. We need to embrace grace. We need to learn how to hug back.”

“If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.”

“Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather as a network of relations, and that, ultimately, there are no parts at all in this interconnected web. Whatever we call a part is merely a pattern that has some stability and therefore captures our attention.”

“It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.”