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I don't judge anyone of any stripe by what they read. Reading is always good for you. It's a positive act.
The law of Love is that you are Love, and that as you give Love to others you teach yourself what you are.
As long as we hold unforgivable thoughts in our mind, we will not be able to experience total inner peace.
Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; lack of it is the reason one loses
I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival
There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.
I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.
The whole point about thinking brilliantly is about knowing your identity and the favor you have in Christ
Our souls - our invisible selves - bear the mark of God Himself. We're like God in that we bear His image.
when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.
The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good
As long as you remember the person who loved you, and whom you still love, then you're making love endure.
Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.
And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him he's crazy. Ask him what he means.
The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
I've learned that education, experience, and memories are three things that no one can take away from you.
Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head.
If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?
It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.
With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.
Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'
I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.
To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.
The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.
I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.
The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.
I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.
There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.
The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning.
War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
The painter Sidney Nolan once told me I tried too hard. Advice I've been trying hard to follow ever since.
'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.
Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.
The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!
In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.