"Your own malice is the bitterest of all evils. Is it then possible to correct malice by means of evil? Having a beam in your own eye, can you pull out the mote from the eye of another?"

-- John of Kronstadt

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“Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider.”

Source : Paul Hawken's Commencement Address to the Class of 2009, www.commondreams.org. May 3, 2009.
“I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.”
“Whatever you say about something, it is not.”
“I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.”

Source : "Georgette Heyer, queen of Regency romance, honoured with blue plaque" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 05, 2015.
“We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.”
“When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.”
“We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.”
“Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact.”

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