Named after Niobe, the daughter of the Greek god Tantalus.

While human rights had been recognized in law and guaranteed in international instruments, enjoyment of those rights was essential to the well being of the individual, the community and the world.

And within a week I had come to believe that the second coming of Christ had occurred, that it was Sun Myung Moon, and that I had been specially chosen and prepared by God to be his disciple.

Judge Murphy proposed that any organization which purported to be religious and whose belief and practices were reminiscent of or reflected ancient forms of worship could claim to believe in one or more supernatural beings, a god or an abstract entity and would be regarded as a religion.

We had to write our own Greek myth, our own creation story, so I wrote a story about an owl who challenged Hermes to a flying race, and the owl cheated, and Hermes, being a Greek god, grew angry and bitter, and turned the owl into a moon, so the owl had to live the rest of his life as a moon while he watched his family and friends play at night.

Some people have one connection, some have two, some have six, some have 10 connections.

Yes, yes, of course.

With flesh and blood and nerves and feelings!

C, C, C.

No. Mr. Segawa. I have nothing to say to you.

did you?

You've all got families at home. Wives, mothers and sweethearts.

Some are poor, some are wealthy. There are billions.

See if everything's okay. Nobody cutting up too much.

Yes, sir, yes, sir, Three bags full

I felt it! Did you feel it?

Well, the way I got it figured, you're up, you're down, you sin, you're saved.

I think it goes into limbo.

Yes, I did but you weren't listening, as usual. Come and show me.

Oh, yes, I have, yeah.

No, you haven't. Yes, I have.

Have yuh got a horse?

Did she arrive with anyone?

You may have the money and the power and sex but I've got love.

No salt, no pepper, no oil, no spices.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh a time to mourn, and a time to dance

a time to weep, and a time to laugh a time to mourn, and a time to dance

A time to weep, and a time to laugh a time to mourn, and a time to dance

A time to weep, and a time to laugh a time to mourn, and a time to dance

Any 11's? Yes, we have an 11. Any 12's?

Some... swear, some bite, some laugh, some cry.

never has been.

Does it say how offensive?

He has power, wealth and family.

Sometimes you have a toxic bloom sometimes you don't.

To be in love is to desire, and to desire is to want to possess.

Youthful, passionate, idealistic.

Got any bicarbonate of soda? No, I haven't.

You have money, power, women...

Ever been arrested before?

No. I'll tell you later.

Champagne, music, flowers.

Okay, religious mania there's rapture, there's weeping, there's visions.

No sophistication, no class, no dignity, no history.

a time to kill, and a time to heal a time to break down, and a time to build up