The souls impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments. – Epictetus
A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out. – Alberic, Monk of Monte-Cassino
My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a masters degree while raising them as a single parent. Now shes a brilliant second-grade teacher. Im in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother. – Idina Menzel
The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public. – Vito Fossella
