“Employment is a condition of being. Unemployment is a period of transition. We bravely present ourselves as having value. It's a façade of projected personal confidence. And a stomach quivering with fear.”

“A good story conveys a message that strengthens our values.”

“We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget what we ourselves are truly about in the process.”

“Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection.”

“Few poets better convey the uneasy transition from Victorianism to Modernism than Thomas Hardy. His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made him not only the recorder of his distinctive region of 'Wessex', but the explorer of the transition of lives and minds from the age of traditional values and religious certainties to the age of godlessness and modern tragedy, a transition sometimes described as 'the clash of the modern'.”

“The Present is where the Past shakes hands with the Future.”

“Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.”