"Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world."

“I have a fall-back fund for the quiet months. I am a single working parent and it gets lonely when things are insecure.”

Source : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

“I think women's soccer is so important. Soccer is the biggest sport for little girls. It's so important for us to give these girls a dream and something they can aspire to be.”

Source : "A conversation with U.S. Olympian Lauren Cheney". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

“Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.”

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

“There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.... The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber.... To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.”

“If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society.”

“Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out”

“Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.