"When it is darkest, we can see the stars."

“You know what I think? I think there's a reason for everything. And I think that there's a plan for everyone. And I think that God has a big plan for me. Just not in this life.”

“To me, sexy is the confident energy a person produces. sexy is the comfortable feeling of being who you are. sexy is not just having beautiful lips, legs and arms; its beyond that. sexy is soul.”

Source : "Karina Smirnoff Nude In Playboy", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2011.

“If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?”

“The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.”

“I didn't have this rebellious streak in me. To me, I'm a product of circumstance.”

“The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.”

“Love is Stronger. Love and hope are conjoined, if you separate one, you kill the other. If hope survives then love endures. Where even a sliver of love exists, the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.”

Source : Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl (2014). “This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl”, p.375, Penguin UK

“There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.”