Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.
Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.
The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.
In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.
I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it.
The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.
I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.
As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.
Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.
Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego.
Your body has natural healing capacities that nobody in the field of medicine can pretend ultimately to understand.
The NRA was run like an old-time club when I took over. We were in the red and getting cut off from our membership.
Recognize that everyone suffers in their own life, even if you don't see it; even if you think they've got it easy.
I salute every individual who honours the core values of peace and help in one way or another to make a difference.
An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.
Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.
In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.
It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.
I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?
I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.
God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.
So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.
If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.
In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
Israel is our only true ally in the Mideast, and supporting it is the only moral thing for the United States to do.
The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")
Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.
Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been.
Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.
We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.