Adeline Diruzzo

“Is it you are going to buy me dinner twice in one week?”
― Jeffrey S. Stephens

“The point is to be compassionately, not cruelly, honest. Tell the person what you have heard that worries you. Allow him to respond. You may be surprised at how much sense his answers make.”
― Nancy O'Meara, The Cult around the Corner: A Handbook on Dealing with Other People's Religions

“Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.”
― Harold Bloom, Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

“Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”
― Abraham Lincoln