"Decorating a Christmas tree is less a seasonal task than a voyage to the past, remembering faces and places thought lost forever,...

"Let the promise of tomorrow's light outshine the memory of yesterday's darkness." - S Chavez

"True strength often has nothing to do with muscle and sinew." - S Chavez

"We must show respect for those with shattered dreams if nothing else than for the fact that they dared to dream at all." - S Chavez

"Mind your words. No sword ever forged was ever as sharp and deadly as a tongue." - S Chavez