You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things. – Israel Zangwill, The Principle of Nationalities, 1917
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadnt had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. – Octavia Butler
I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb. – Vaslav Nijinsky
Of course I look at the glass half full. The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted. – Drew Deyoung