"The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone"

“Feeling emotionally connected to a song, and accumulating every bit of the moment's energy to sing out to the audience is what I believe makes a great performer.”

“The only thing I have to do in life is die. Everything else is a choice... including breathing.”

“I mind my body by eating whole, healthy foods. I learned from Nutrisystem to eat consistently all day; otherwise, your body hoards fat. Of course, I also mind my body when it occasionally whispers, 'Marie, you need some chocolate.'”

“I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church.”

Source : "Egypt's new Coptic pope faces delicate balancing act" by Abdel-Rahman Hussein, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2012.

“I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.”

“He was gorgeous, and I absolutely, no question, had to be drooling. After a quick and hopefully stealthy check – big show, I wasn’t!- I found myself wonder what color his eyes were. Brown maybe. Or even hazel. Either way…wow, just wow. Deer? Headlights? Hi, I’m Ali.”

“If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.”

“A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.”