Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.
Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.
Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.
Most people use excuses to cover up mistakes, but it takes less time to do something right the first time.
When going for a run, I pick fresh air, openness, and scenery of the outdoors over a treadmill every time.
I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.
Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.
Love is the real work of your life. It is your spiritual path. It is the key to your growth and evolution.
It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.
He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.
The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.
Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.
For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.
If you're too confident in assuming that America's and God's purposes are one, you tiptoe toward idolatry.
Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.
Peace means loyalty to self. ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act.
As authors, we're all trying to fight against obscurity and outside distractions, but it's a tough battle.
Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.
Where I once found it safer to stay in the background... I've stepped from the shadows into the spotlight.
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.
Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
The Gnostic only can wake up to the true state of Illumination by understanding and disintegrating dreams.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.
It's a time to stop, honor and reflect on the abundance, prosperity, people and lives we are blessed with.
Even when I look straight into the milky blue eyes I can't find myself any more. When did I stop being me?
I did steal socks, but I got caught... don't shoplift, anyone - don't do it! You're just gonna get caught.
That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.
This new world was already turning her into a cabbagehead, and she'd only been a part of it for an evening
The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.
It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different.
Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.
The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.
One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.
You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.
Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.