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have you ever met a woman you wanted to give everything to? just turn over everything you had? -Davy Dempsey-
Even in the busiest lives, there is room for a sacred pause. Between actions, pause and remember who you are.
Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.
I feel as though I've gotten to a point where I don't really want to set a book in any real place ever again.
Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.
The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.
Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.
Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.
Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.
Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.
Good people are not trained, they are found. If you are training too much, you may not have the right people.
You can make startling changes you can’t even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance.
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.
There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.
I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally.
I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.
Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.
What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other
I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.
You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.
And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.
The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.
Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room.
We all have preconceptions of people based on what we have been told about them and their race and ethnicity.
If your habits don't line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream
If your a leader, do everything you can to grow yourself and create the right environment for others to grow.
The most successful people in life are the ones who settle their critical issues early and manage them daily.
God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.
Shut up, Axl!" he whispered fiercly. "If you want to break your neck, do it quietly or I'll break it for you.
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.
No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.
I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.
Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.
Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.
The creative process is different from the traditional production and work-flow process. It is not so linear.
The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.
When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.