the potential, and courage, of differentness (1 December 2016)

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

- Bette Midler 

Mother Antonia Brenner, was a twice-divorced mother of eight when she began ministering to the poor in Mexico in the 1960s.  

She became a nun at 50, and founded an order for older single, divorced or widowed women who want to serve the poor, including working with prisoners.                    New York Time Obituary, 2013

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

- Bette Midler

Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.

- Woody Allen, Manhattan

If you think of something, do it.
Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

- Lydia Davis

Christopher Moloney, FILMography - photos of film stills on location in New York (and elsewhere)