Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
Revival is when God's people return to God and God returns to them, and everyone sees the difference.
If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.
We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.
We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.
Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.
Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
The polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
When you're in my house you shall do as I do and believe who I believe in. So Bart butter your bacon.
You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity.
Casually mount the sounds and straddle the colors while you transcend listening and surpass watching.
To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'literary novelist'.
Do you want to be strangely various, or do you want to be purely yourself? Either way, revere no one.
Nobody loves the rat race, but nobody can think of anything else—Satan has us just where he wants us.
He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
I existed before I received this body. I am the external and fundamental life energy of the universe.
A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.
We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.
The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
Satan's most effective weapon is to take our eyes off of what God has declared over us in the gospel.
Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.
All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.
A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be
We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.
And that's an even greater love: to love somebody when he's a little...worn at the edges. —Teddy Bear
Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.
...while everyone's focusing on keeping the boss happy, who's focusing on keeping the customer happy?
That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.
The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.
I hoped I wasn't actually dead. That would make finding our parents and saving the world really hard.
All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.
Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.
Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.
Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.
As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.