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Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.
In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.
It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Too many of us never understand what we owe to our dear ones until there remains no further opportunity of paying love's debt.
You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.
Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that's the easiest part of the game.
a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.
I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.
If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.
I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.
When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.
Love between two people can last a long time if the people love themselves some, and are ready to give love to another person.
Spirituality can not be separate from how we treat our bodies, construct our lifestyles, and keep our energy at higher levels.
There's a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.
My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses.
The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
I know the bestseller 'Gone Girl' doesn't need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they come.
God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.
I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.
Men may not believe you, my son. But you must always say the truth, when the truth holds no danger for you or your loved ones.
It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance...no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just life, that's all.
Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.
Of course he wouldn't hesitate before trying something that had never been done before. He was Vlad Tepesh. How could he fail?
Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.
In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.
An armed man, especially if he is armed with a firearm, is dangerous as long as he is conscious. Take no chances. Put him out.
Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.
I believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I'm always trying to improve myself.
He realized something was going on between Logan and me. I wish he'd clue me in on exactly what it was, because I had no idea.
I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?
The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.
Any time I’m not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it’s because I’m up to something.
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.
At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.
If you want to be healthy study health... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth... if you want to be happy, study happiness.
There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.
"I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"
true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.