Roberta

“My heart is filled with love for this country.”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“I realized that in some unspoken, still tentative way, she and I were already becoming a family.”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts... [you] still experience the same greed, resentment, lust, and anger that everyone else experienced... the lines between sinner and saved [are] more fluid; the sins of those who come to church are not so different from the sins of those who don't... You [need] to come to church precisely because you [are] of this world, not apart from it; rich, poor, sinner, saved you [need] to embrace Christ precisely because you had sins to wash away... that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for economic and social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world...”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream