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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Before you can move in new directions, you must first let go of what's not working for you.
Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.
I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.
Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.
... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.
Sometimes when almost everything is wrong, one thing is so right you would do it all again.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.
I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.
Townsend shrugged. 'With all due respect to the good doctor, I highly suspect he's a moron.
The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when u simply don't bother about that person!
The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?
You need bravery because in the picture of soul, the bravery points are the most beautiful.
Time is priceless. Spend it with people you have high value and energy exchange rates with.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
I believe that there are moments in sex that are so awesome that they actually reflect God.
Knowledge is one thing. We're awash in knowledge. Wisdom is rare. There's a big difference.
The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.
There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.
There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.
There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.
Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
I would destroy the city if something happened to you. I can't even bear the thought of it.
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.
Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!
Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun
Some mysteries are simply irresistible,” she said. “They have components that alter a life.
You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.