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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.
Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.
They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.
The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.
It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.
Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.
To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it.
It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
The positive side about dealing with the logistics of moving books around is that it's better than a gym!
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.
I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.
When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.
I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.
With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
I’ve learned in a hundred ways that I rarely regretted acting but often regretted NOT acting fast enough.
We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
Making fake promises while wearing a fancy dress... that isn't enough. Promises take more work than that.
Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.
Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats...
Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.
When you go out to Hollywood, it's like, "Here's the book. It is what it is. It'll always stay the same."
Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing.
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.
He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.
We need one another. There's no reason to judge. People are more fragile than you could possibly imagine.
When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.
...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.
Look at a crucifix. This is how I got my bride to heaven. How else do you think you will get yours there?
I am confident that many people will find the New Testament alive in a new way after reading The Message.
Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.
You chose to come to Paris, of all places,” Mencheres replied. So what? Got something against the French?
Some things we need to talk about, but not here. I'll see you later, darling." "No you won't, nut muffin!
Rodney the ghoul?...Oh, I liked him. He didn't get angry no matter how many times my mother insulted him.
Value-first is a perception. If your customer does not perceive it as value, then it's not very valuable.
Some of these people need ten years of therapy - ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.
Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships.
Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.