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When someone becomes a millionaire, the least important thing is what they have. The most important thing is what they have become.
The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind."
You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.
Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.
I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.
The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.
I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.
If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.
I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.
Here's the problem. Most people are thinking about what they don't want, and they're wondering why it shows up over and over again.
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word.
The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.
Stig: 'Of course, she'll sail rings around Wolfswind,' Hal: 'Then why didn't you tell him that?' Stig: 'I like my head where it is.
If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.
The reality is that whatever you are looking for is, at the same time, looking for you. It all starts with believing before seeing.
I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.
It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.
It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.
By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.
In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.
Maine's motto is "Vacationland," but as far as I'm concerned, it should be, "Maine: Putting the 'spite' in hospitality since 1820."
Play your heart out each game, so you can look your teammates in the eyes and ask, without saying it, 'I played full out, did you?'
Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.
Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.
Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.
To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.
If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.
The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit.
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.
At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.
Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.
The Sins of Scripture is an interesting title; most people don't put sins and scripture together in the same title. It jars people.
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?
Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.
There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.
Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.
If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.