If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.
No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them
Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.
When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.
One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany
Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.
Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.
Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.
The only way I can protect him now is to make sure he never understands how easy killing can become.
Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.
Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.
The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.
Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.
I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.
We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.
I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.
It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present
It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.
When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.
Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.
I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.
I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?
And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.
When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.
I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.
There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.
You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out...
I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.
We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.
...and then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini.
Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.
However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.