Communication

“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."         - Mark Twain ...

"Christ has made you his ambas­sadors, the primary evangelizers of your contemporaries."    - Pope Francis ...

“Sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows.  Why is that?”  . . . “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.” - Carlos Ruiz ...

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.” - George Orwell ...

"Stories happen to those who tell them." - Thucydides ...

“Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them ...

"What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement [of the adolescent] in the decision making." - Laurence Steinberg and Ann Levine ...

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way, an artist says a hard thing in a simple way." - Charles Bukowski ...

"The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions." - Susan Sontag ...

"Music and art allow us to enter an inner world of emotions that go beyond words, a way to survive, a new language that gives us a new way to express ourselves." ...