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When backed up against a wall, dig deep, demand excellence, stand tall, and be strong.
Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.
Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.
Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet.
A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.
I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.
To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
Are the choices you are making going to really make you happy NOW or happy eventually?
My chief 'success philosophy' is, 'Give people every opportunity to say "Yes" to you'.
You could weave silk from pig bristles before you could make a man anything but a man.
I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.
Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.
The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.
Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.
The title is one of the most important things. It is the first thing that people read.
Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.
Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.
The right measure is not how many customers you've got, but how closely you hold them.
Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children.
I think that racism is ugly and so unfair, and I believe that we all need one another.
Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.
I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.
When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.
What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?
Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.
Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.
Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else!
It's too sad to live eating theories. The best thing is to transmute wisdom into love.
Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.
I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.
The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.
Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.
The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.
In the midst of our daily lives, we must find the juice to nourish our creative souls.
We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.
Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.
In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.
The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here.
Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It's the other way around.
Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.