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I've loved all my books, but I will admit that 'The Man from Stone Creek' holds a very special place in my heart.
... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.
That is kind of you, my lord. But I will never dance with you.' Which, of course, made it the goal of Leo's life.
The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.
Never slam a car door. According to the Westchester elite, it's a heinous crime, as heartless as kicking a puppy.
It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.
All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe!
Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.
To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.
It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.
...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.
Never believe a man's claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her; only abusers think this way.
For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.
If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.
Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.
Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.
It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.
Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.
We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.
Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.
We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.
No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.
The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.
A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.
I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wantedotherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.
The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.
Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.
We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.
Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.
A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance.
Demonstrate talent, said Grandmother often to me, and you will still be loved by a husband when beauty has faded.
What is it about sameness that so draws me, and how could I begin to have that same kind of attraction to change?
Step by step will those who trust Him find that 'God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.'
I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.
America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.