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I'd love to sit down with Barbara Walters. She's always asking people about their personal lives. I'd like to see how she likes it.
I didn't want to hurt you," she blurted. "I never wanted to be someone you would regret. I'm not afraid for me. I'm afraid for you.
No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.
Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do?
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.
Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.
The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass.
Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble.
I made the contract with God years ago, that no matter what came through, I would say it, but if I ever hurt someone, I would stop.
A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.
The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.
Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming.
Some males are intelligent, some are dumb. Some females are intelligent, some are dumb. We're all human beings, no one is superior.
Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.
I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.
He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.
In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.
There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.
The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.
He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.
Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.
(About a cookbook...) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.
Do you know how wizards like to be buried?" "Yes!" "Well, how?" Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs. "Reluctantly.
Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.
We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.
I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.
No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.
Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold,' but rather, 'How many people did you help?
Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be.
I learned to associate discomfort with getting better. And that transcended wrestling and applied to a lot of other things in life.
I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.
Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.
We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.
Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.
'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.
Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus.
Tap into people's emotions. We've all been put to sleep by a speaker who just gives the facts. You must tap into people's feelings.
The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation.
Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.
The beliefs that we use to define our own individuality, what makes us unique - good, bad, or indifferent - from other individuals.
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.
Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.