An intention is a quality of consciousness that you bring to an action.

Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.

Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.

Nothing speaks louder than your heart. Listen to what it's telling you.

We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.

Without improving our mind there is no way to solve our human problems.

It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

I'm not much of a procedural person. That's not what I'm interested in.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.

Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It nudges you to clarity.

Every other group helps its own members. Women should, too. Be sisters.

There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.

You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

After you've work hard to get what you want, take the time to enjoy it.

Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

True faith is trusting the sovereign God even when we don't understand.

Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

World peace will never come until the passion of supremacy is combated.

Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

When ignorance mobilizes, it's always the free minds it destroys first.

Gray is the queen of colors, because she makes everyone else look good.

Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.

The Christian never works toward victory, he always works FROM victory.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

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