"Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them."

“Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.”

“My personality and nothing from my past would have ever predicted that I would be at the center of a controversy.”

“What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.”

Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.9, Random House

“It's a funny thing no matter who you are when you purchase a flower or a plant, the first thing you ask is how do I keep this plant and keep it growing beautiful. People need the same concern.”

“Then on! then on! where duty leads,My course be onward still.”

Source : George Crabbe, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1839). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”

“Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.”

“The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.”

“I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment”