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Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?
The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
When you are in your heart, nothing needs to be done to bring change... It will happen automatically and with grace.
One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.
Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?
If you're sitting around worrying about bills all day, it's hard to hear the guidance that's coming from the inside.
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment
That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space...it is also within you.
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.
Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.
Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.
Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.
My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ
Bad writing is like a bad relationship. Don't be addicted to it just because you are familiar with its ways. Let go.
I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.
That was very comforting to me to hold onto that belief, that I did have a heavenly Father who was watching over me.
For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.
If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.
Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.
Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations.
Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
Your gift is not a burden," she whispered. "But you must be brave, because it has more power than the sharpest claw.
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
Great opportunity is all around you and it will inspire you to either take advantage of it or deny that it is there.
I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.
It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.
For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.
It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.