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It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.
Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.
Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.
Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.
You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.
Four will Become Two, Lion and Tiger will Meet in Battle, and Blood will Rule the Forest.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.
If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.
Just one great idea can change your life dramatically. Look for it. It's there somewhere!
Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?
The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are.
When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.
I like medicine. Even if I was selling a million books a year, I would still be a doctor.
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
We are working to help people become better people; then this will become a better world.
If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.
Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.
I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.
The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.
If you're around someone who makes you feel good, you have to go for it. Don't hold back.
I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.
I would never go on an intimate date with Charlie Sheen. He is really not my type at all.
I feel like when you just say what the truth is, you can't really comment more than that.
Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.
Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.
In 1976, I was invited to interview for the CEO position of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.
The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.
Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.