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I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
Just because I don't harass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion.
In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.
Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all.
Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.
Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie
People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes.
There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.
Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.
The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.
If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.
I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
One of the challenges of wearing so many hats, is that I love each and every one of them!
There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.
To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.
The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life.
I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
People talk about love as if it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers.
The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.
I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.
Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.
I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.
Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.
Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.
Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.
Making ourselves the solution, rather than part of the problem is our greatest challenge.
Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
For me, it's always easy to choose between the Ultimate, the Infinite, and the Chocolate.
If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.
If you value your safety, avoid holy places founded in the name of peace and brotherhood.
Did God create man, or did man create God? Either way, the decision needs to be reviewed.
I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.
People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.
Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.
Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
one has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
If the women's movement can be summed up in a single phrase, it is 'the right to choose'.