Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?
I think there's a difference between "I Can" and "I Am." And "I Am" is really the goal that I'm looking for, rather than "I Can".
With 'Crucible,' any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect.
You can't fill your emails with crap, at least not with my friends, because they're brutal. If something sucks, they'll tell you.
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.
I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.
Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate.
If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.
if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives
The soul is the birthless, deathless, changeless part of us - the part of us that looks out from behind our eyes and has no form.
When you trace a particle back to its origins, you find that it's nothing but pure energy. All of us come from this energy field.
Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.
Once you love, you cannot take it back, cannot undo it. What you felt may have changed, shifted slightly, yet still remains love.
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.
Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.
What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.
There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.
Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.
Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.
Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.
Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.
Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
The visible and invisible worlds are inextricably intertwined... once you’ve opened your eyes to this, you can dance between them.
In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of nature and creation as well
The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off.
Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.
I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?
It's not easy to reach the summit of your career by the age of 24 - and for the years after to be a humiliating scrabble downhill.
That's what true love is. It cannot be broken, it cannot be chipped away, it's eternal, everlasting, and it can weather any storm.
Haven's warm, clammy palms press hard against my cheeks as the tarnished edge of her silver skull ring leaves a smudge on my skin.
Explaining that I'm faced with a choice between being with the love of my life, or saving four lives that were never meant to end.
No: What the heck happened? Or: Why did you go from nearly kissing me to tossing me across your yard and into the patio furniture?