"What can we not endure, When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure?"

“The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.”

“There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.”

“The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.”

“I've discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God's Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.”

“I have a big personality, and I've been attracted to women with big personalities. I think that is usually going to happen when you have big personalities.”

“What people say doesn't really matter. It's best to just brush it off and move on.”

Source : "What It Was Like For Teresa Giudice to Watch Her Release From Prison on The Real Housewives of New Jersey". Interview with Maggie Panos, www.popsugar.com. July 10, 2016.

“The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.”

“To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.”

Source : "Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.