"A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds."

“I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.”

“History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it - as with these - life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.”

“Life may not be fair, but when you have someone to believe in, life can be managed, and sometimes, even miraculous.”

Source : Julia Scheeres (2012). “Jesus Land: A Memoir”, p.348, Counterpoint Press

“I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.”

“A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.”

“I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions; I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.”

“Woman is the symbol to man of the uncleanness of bodily existence, of which he purifies himself by putting her to noble uses. She thus has for him a double, contradictory significance; she is the subject of his bawdry and the subject of his romance.”

“Demonstrate to the world there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine.”

Source : James Mattis' words in a message to the 1st Marine Division on the eve of the Iraq War (March 2003), as quoted in "Eve of Battle Speech" in The Weekly Standard, March 1, 2003; also quoted in Oliver North "War Stories: Operation Iraqi Freedom" (p. 53), 2003.