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Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.
It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.
Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.
Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.
As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself.
True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states.
You look like the type of people who would criticize a misspelling in a suicide note.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.
Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.
When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.
We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)
One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's own self.
Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.
Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.
Only those who do not fill the places they are holding slow the progress of the world
Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.
If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life
A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.
The fear of not having enough prevents many from seeing that they already are enough.
Forgiveness is the Most Powerful thing you can Do for Yourself on the Spiritual Path.
Guns don’t kill people. Video games, the media and Barack Obama’s budget kill people.
I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.
What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.
Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.
Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.
I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.
What’s your cause? Does it move you to tears? What is it that moves you passionately?
Love is the spiritual magnetism that draws men together, for the working of miracles.
Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas
You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.
Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.
Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.