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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

From a fallen tree, all make kindling.

The respect and protection of woman and of maternity should be raised to the position of an inalienable social duty and should become one of the principles of human morality.

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?

The influence of the Shaw Brothers films on my work has been profound. In addition to the richness of Asian culture, we at Wu-Tang were fascinated with the struggles between the oppressed Chinese villagers and the repressive Manchu authority and how it mirrored our own experiences growing up as black kids in America's inner cities.

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.

Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

Willy Wonka had his chocolate factory; I have my Fear & Fancy Parlor.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

I never knew Mother Teresa, but I admired her, especially in this day and age when there aren't many heroes.

I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.

Today is a gift that will be taken from you at day's end. Don't waste a moment, a chance, a lesson. You'll never live today again.

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.

The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.