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There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.
It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.
All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!
If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.
Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
You are never asked to do more than you are able without being given the strength and ability to do it.
When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.
My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.
God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that he act in ways that satisfy my idea of justice.
Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.
My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave his wife.
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.
The only leader America should ever have is someone who understands that the people are the government.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!
Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
The day you wind up single through divorce or separation is the day you get to test who you really are.
I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.
Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.
When you are in vibrational harmony, your body produces whatever it needs to remain in perfect balance.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.
he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.
Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.
I hope that others can turn their negative thoughts into positive thoughts and improve their own lives.
Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.
Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
Well, you will have to do. If you had died along with your mother, I would have taught the cat to read.
Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.
There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.
Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.
He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.
There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.
There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.
Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.