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Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.
What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.
When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams and take the path less traveled.
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.
Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.
The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.
A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal eye or not.
There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the law if you are to get the results you seek.
The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.
True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.
Since this life is God's and cannot die, it follows that everyone born anew into possessing this life is said to have eternal life.
You get World Peace through Inner Peace. If you've got a world full of people who have Inner Peace, then you have a Peaceful World.
It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?
True kindness is rooted in a deep sense of abundance, out of which flows a sense that even as I give, it is being given back to me.
There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.
Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.
One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
The child who has not been disciplined with love by his little world will be disciplined, generally without love, by the big world.
If you don't have time to invest in a goals program is it possible that you don't have time because you don't have a goals program?
Most Americans honestly believe America is the most powerful nation on earth, but actualy the most powerful nation is imagi-nation.
If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.
God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God
Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.
The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.
It's a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don't know the answer. I don't know what I'd do, except run away.
Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
C'mon, you're gonna get upset sometimes. Breaking up is a shitty business. Someone always gets hurt. This time it happens to be you.
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting.
Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.
Listen to me, Cammie. There are things in this life…in this world…There are things that you don’t want to remember.” - Rachel Morgan
You speak of giving up my dreams. Have you ever, since Maeve's coven split, had a dream? Have you ever had anything worth dying for?
When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.
I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.
It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.