"Strength, confidence, humility and love. Hector Ricardo's four tenets of life."

“Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.”

“Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.”

“Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.”

“The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.”

“Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's a percussiveness that can sometimes be quite energizing and useful in singing as an expressive device.”

Source : "For Opera Powerhouse Dolora Zajick, 'Singing Is Connected To The Body'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 25, 2015.

“All currency is neurotic currency.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.271, Wesleyan University Press

“To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.”

“I'm taking my time. I feel much more confident, and every day I feel like I'm getting better.”