Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.
I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.
USA Today hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation.
Your brand's power lies in dominance. It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.
I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.
I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death.
Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities.
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation
Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd
And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.
how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!
I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make it worse.
Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
No part of you is dark or ugly,' I said sharply, squeezing his hand. 'Not to me, not ever. Do you understand?
This may shock you, but the most important person in your life is you. You are meant to be 'full of yourself.
Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred
I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].
Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.
Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.
What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?
You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes
The most powerful force in a woman's life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.
Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.
Om is a living phenomenon and it has its own mood. Depending on its mood the meaning will be revealed to you.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.
If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.
I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.
I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.
I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.
I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike
People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.
Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at all.
You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face.
One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.
Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.
Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.
Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.