I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!
When you notice that politicians and the media are after you, it makes you all the more determined to find out the truth.
The Olympics unite the world and inspire us to be a better version of ourselves. The competitions motivate the spectators, and the athletes' message is: You should have more confidence in your ability to achieve things, you should dream more.
Being skeptical is part of my job, to question every amazing achievement. That's always there. But I am also capable of turning down the cynicism. The basic idea of sports, the fairness, the competition, remains a beautiful thing.
It's not enough to just test athletes. The athletes themselves need to fight for their right to compete against clean athletes.
In the old days, athletes got worked up about the strict rules - today they get worked up about these rules being ignored elsewhere.
Education and prevention are not enough when there is a culture of fraud.
Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!
What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.
Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
According to St. Bonaventure, all the angels in heaven unceasingly call out to her: "Holy, holy, holy Mary, Virgin Mother of God. " They greet her countless times each day with the angelic greeting, "Hail, Mary", while prostrating themselves before her, begging her as a favour to honour them with one of her requests. According to St. Augustine, even St. Michael, though prince of all the heavenly court, is the most eager of all the angels to honour her and lead others to honour her. At all times he awaits the privilege of going at her word to the aid of one of her servants.