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There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.
The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God
The flower of # consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows.
...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.
When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.
In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.
There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
Money doesn't transform a person - the only thing that can is love.
Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.
perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind.
What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
Recognize success with thanksgiving and build more success on that.
Missourians are a hardworking people. They want good, quality jobs.
I read Mitch Daniels's book, 'Keeping the Republic,' several times.
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.
The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.
Wedlock's like wine - not properly judged of till the second glass.
You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it
The greatest enemy to the movement of Jesus Christ is Christianity.
Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.
Your life is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts.
I don't have to know everything that's gonna happen, I know enough.
It is only in your thriving that you have anything to offer anyone.
You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.
There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.
A story is not the same thing when it ends as it was when it began.
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
My 2016 New Year's resolution is basically to stop using profanity.
Without intuition there would be no vision of future possibilities.
Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for evil purposes.
We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.