Face towards the perfect image of every organ and the shadows of disease will never touch you.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

People who follow their joy discover a depth of creativity and talent that inspires the world.

Happiness is attractive. Once you decide to be happy, you attract great things into your life.

Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon

There was a wild light in his eyes. "Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.

Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

Every dollar cut from the price of oil weakens the enemies of freedom and strengthens America.

"Come on Grace, I'm not going to tell on you. I'm your sister." And that's all she has to say.

Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear.

Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

You multiply your time by spending time on things today that will give you more time tomorrow.

When death occurs, death as you know it, the universe embraces you and takes you to its heart.

Focus, Amy. Just because he looked great in the saddle did not mean he wasn't an axe murderer.

Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn - and only from us.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.

Whenever I run out of people to write about, I cook up a few ghosts, or they appear before me.

I can promise you that the Spirit is a lot more anxious to help you than you are to be helped.

Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.

The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.

It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.

I'm a message maker. I create products and ideas that help people connect one heart at a time.

Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

I have to say that writing about my writing process is more daunting than writing non-fiction.

Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.

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