"Although your physical body was created, you are the one who makes this body function. In other words, you are the divine life known as God. I call it a life branching out from God."

“I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.”

“As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down.”

Source : "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.

“Mothers, take time to be a real friend to your children. Listen to your children, really listen. Talk with them, laugh and joke with them, sing with them, cry with them, hug them, honestly praise them. Yes, regularly spend unused one-on-one time with each child. Be a real friend to your children.”

“Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.”

Source : William Watson (1936). “The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935”

“As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter With my friends, I was still an extrovert.”

“I'm dead against the idea that you should try to "cure" people of being gay.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

“Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.”

“But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.”

Source : Fred Reinfeld (2012). “The Immortal Games of Capablanca”, p.10, Courier Corporation