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Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.
Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.
In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.
Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.
Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.
All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.
In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless.
Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.
By dwelling on negativity, we prevent ourselves from living in the simple state of well-being.
Most people believe that aging is universal but there are biological organisms that never age.
There will be difficulties to face on the way to being successful. You can weather the storms.
There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.
You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.
People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.
I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.
A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.
You're pulling out and someone says, 'hey, you know what, go ahead and take my spot', miracle.
Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time.
Today, a politician does not just need public support to win elections; he needs it to govern.
Customer will create most value for you at point he thinks you're creating most value for him.
I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.
There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.
If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.
It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.
Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
We cannot excuse the fact that he [Donald Trump] is running for president. He's a frontrunner.
Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.
Today, recall a favorite memory, which serves as a gateway to uplifting feelings and thoughts.
Don't feel obligated to spend time with people who pull you off the path of your life purpose.
History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.
It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.
Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.
Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.
Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.
Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.
Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merelyflowers.
Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.
Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.
Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.
The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.