"To pray well is the better half of study."

“When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.”

Source : "Sandra Bland's Family Reacts To Grand Jury's Decision". "Morning Edition"with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.

“It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.”

“I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.”

“One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.”

“Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady. I'm on a horse.”

Source : "Live Q&A: Quiz the advertising execs" by Alison White, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2011.

“I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'”

“I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.”

Source : 'Pathology of Colours' (1968)

“You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.”