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The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.
O Christian! do not falter, The harvest field is white, And many souls are sinking Into eternal night.
...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.
George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.
I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.
President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.
You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.
Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger
I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future.
True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.
If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it.
When you have passion for something you find a way to make it happen - this is the panacea to success.
Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments everyday.
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could
The way you look on the outside has a definite bearing on how you feel and see yourself on the inside.
You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.
Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.
It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
Kids play make-believe all the time, so they tend to be better at using their imaginations than adults.
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.
History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.
Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man's lordship has cost us too much.
Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.
Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.
A retreatist spirituality is not a spirituality that can, or will, transform the world in Jesus's name.
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.