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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people
My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.
I can't fill the hole with money. I can't fill it with alcohol, or drugs, or sex, so what do I need to fill it with?
My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.
Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding
This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.
If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.
I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.
It takes discipline and compassion to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough to recognize the divine in another.
Go ahead. Weep for the rare, the never seen this way again, the excruciating, ineffable, unmitigated beauty of love.
I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.
I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.
Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.
Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships.
Believers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies.
On both sides of the Atlantic, politics has come to be dominated by vitriolic name-calling and pervasive dishonesty.
When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.
How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.
Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.
I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die.
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.
She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.
Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.
It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage.
Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.
Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.
It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.
No one spiritual path is better than another, although one may accept the universe's role in life more than another.
Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.
I'm soooooo telling." Puck stood behind her. "You two disobeyed your parents! I'm both shocked and really impressed.
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.
When I was at a newspaper, I knew what an opportunity that was, and I religiously protected my time on the cop beat.
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.
We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
I was trying to write a straightforward book of sociological analysis, or at least cultural criticism, and I failed.
Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.
Business operators that really deeply care about their employees and consumers deliver the right response every day.
You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.
We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.
In the amount of time it takes to microwave a TV dinner, you can put something much tastier on the table, I promise.
Let each citizen contribute their natural talents or acquired skills to the greater benefit of all in the community.
In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.