"There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't."

“Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.”

Source : Kathryn Hulme, Edward Streeter, Helen Howe, Frank O'Rourke, Winston Graham (1956). “The Nun's Story, Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter, The Success, The Diamond Hitch, The Sleeping Partner”

“I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.”

“In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.”

“We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.”

“I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.”

“The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.”

“Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.”

Source : Michael Parenti (2004). “Superpatriotism”, p.81, City Lights Books

“Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.”

Source : "David Caruso talks 'CSI: Miami'". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. September 23, 2002.