"Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation."

“For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.”

“What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?”

Source : Frances Wright (1831). “A Few Days in Athens: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum”, p.94

“I didn't fancy any of my teachers.”

“Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.”

Source : Gaius Valerius Catullus, Peter Green (2005). “The Poems of Catullus”, p.49, Univ of California Press

“The hardest victory is the victory over self.”

“History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.”

Source : "The Crimson Petal and the White". Book by Michel Faber (Episode ten), www.theguardian.com. 2002.

“The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.”

“Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is the way it's supposed to work. This is God's plan: father and mother, grandfather and grandmother teaching their children; children learning from them and then becoming a more righteous generation through their own personal experiences and opportunities. Learning the lessons of the past allows you to build personal testimony on a solid bedrock of obedience, faith, and the witness of the Spirit.”