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The most shattering thought I've ever had is my personal accountability to God one day
Isn't it amazing that God gives breath to a man who is going to blaspheme Him all day!
The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.
Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.
A theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant.
I could be a millionaire if I knew how to make stuff and wasn't afraid of electricity.
Some things can’t be ignored. You can only conquer your past if you choose to face it.
That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.
For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.
I'm not running away from my fears," I told Dane. "I'm running away from my relatives.
Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening.
If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.
If you want to touch me, Kendall, touch me. Don't hide behind those little girl slaps.
Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?
It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
My imagination can do whatever it wants to do. This gives me a great sense of freedom.
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
It's a good thing I'm a reasonably patient woman. Otherwise, I might have to kill you.
I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.
Don't ever think it's too late for you or that you're too old to dream and have goals.
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.
I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.
If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.
The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.
The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?
When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.
Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.
God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.
Even Jesus, the Savior of the world, had to take time each day to ask for his portion.
Gratitude is the realization that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.
'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
Work is the world's easiest escape from boredom and the only surefire road to success.
Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
I've always been fascinated by mythology or, in modern parlance, by X-Men or vampires.
The study of nature is a limitless field, the most fascinating adventure in the world.
I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
I did what any good rat would do. I bit down on the guard's hand until I tasted blood.