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Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.
In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command, and it’s time for a mutiny.
Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.
The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it.
Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use you don't have cities.
A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.
It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.
Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.
My parents were very proud of me. After they passed, my career doesn't mean as much to me.
Set your mind that no matter what is going on in your life, you will have a good attitude.
If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.
Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.
If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.
Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.
You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality
Nobody who knows me and loves me dearly would ever call me adaptable or flexible. I'm not.
If you think something is impossible, it is. Until you decide it’s possible and you do it.
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.
Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.
The Church must be one because a fragmented church is not much help to a fragmented world.
My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract.
Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.
I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.
I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.
There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.
All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.
How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist should keep her Wonderbra and burn her brains.
There should be a drama series about women trying to figure out their mystery leg bruises.
Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.
What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.
The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.
When you decide to walk by faith, you don't get rid of trials. You learn to overcome them.
God will dare to do the impossible in your life if you dare to step across the faith line.
Money is a bad god. People are a bad god. They don't have the power to do what God can do.
Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.
The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.
I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.
Grace does not lead us to overlook obedience. Grace compels and empowers us for obedience.
We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends.
Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.
I thought I’d learn a few new words, but the men were too shocked to even swear this time.
My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.
Sometimes I wanted to take a memory - one perfect memory - curl up in it, and go to sleep.