"I've learned a valuable opinion does not tell you what to think, it illuminates what you should consider."

“I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.”

“There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargaining—anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldn’t have him ripped away from me like that. I could survive emotional turmoil; I could survive the most intense physical torture. I could survive Armageddon and holy fire raining down upon the earth, but I could not survive without him.”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.63, Macmillan

“In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through”

Source : "Chat: Shannon Miller". Interview with Peter Gambaccini, www.runnersworld.com. October 23, 2006.

“Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.”

Source : Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

“What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?”

“Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.”

Source : Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

“Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.”

“For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.”