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You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor.
The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.
Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.
I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.
Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.
My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.
By being peaceful, quiet, and receptive, you pattern yourself in the image of God, and you regain the power of your Source.
Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.
Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.
Do not delegate an assignment and then attempt to manage it yourself - you will make an enemy of the overruled subordinate.
No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.
I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.
If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.
There is no experimental data that exists that supports the view that the Earth's climate is changing in any dangerous way.
Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.
That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.
God never shuts one door without opening a bigger better door. Hang in there. You are closer to success than you may think.
The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.
Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.
Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.
You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power
There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.
It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.
It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.
Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.
We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts
In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.
Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.
The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one.
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.
VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end.
Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.