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When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.
Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?
It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?
Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.
For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.
The more we read God’s truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we’ll spend contemplating untruths.
Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.
God never intended for us to rely on others for our sense of well being. Only He is equipped to provide that.
Jesus is the sanctuary every time we gather with other believers. We need that truth to soak into our hearts.
The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.
I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.
The things that are the most valuable are often the ones you don't even know exist. -- Xavier, The Gatekeeper
When you are ecstatic and in love, you feel buoyant, you feel life, you feel like you are dancing in the sky.
Any time a new technology is introduced, like when TV was first invented, everybody was like, "Radio's dead."
Maximum damage. It was the beginning of the end. Either we would fail or not. At least we could say we tried.
Flea stared at us, "I can't decide what's worse. Losing family members or not having a family member to lose.
Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks.
The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.
Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.
The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.
I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.
In the Kabbala, it says that we receive the light in order to impart the light, and thus we repair the world.
Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.
The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
The pictures feel as essential to me as the text. I was always interested in including pictures with writing.
A really fun fan moment was when a fan gave me a copy of 'Legend' that he had turned into a functional clock!
I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.
Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.
people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.
Three-hundred million years from now, the only thing that will matter is whether you're in Heaven or in Hell.
Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.
Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.
Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.
I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.
Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.
I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.
The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.’
Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.
Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!
Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.