"Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down."

“Although your past has been painful devastating or cruel God has promised to be a Restorer and a Redeemer. He says He will "give us gladness in proportion to our former misery " and "replace the evil years with good".”

“I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.”

Source : "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.

“Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.”

“...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so that it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all.”

Source : "Amongst Women". Book by John McGahern, www.theguardian.com. 1990.

“I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out and bought a lot of shirts.”

“I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone.”

“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.”

“The freedoms we have in Russia are just leftovers. Freedom of travel, which was completely nonexistent in the Soviet Union; artistic freedom - so far, that's doing fine too, virtually everything can be published. Although with some books that are too edgy politically, or are especially undesirable, the authors are already running into difficulties. Theaters that produce provocative plays, or clubs that host undesirable events often find themselves on the receiving end of fire safety inspections and fines.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com