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People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.
An essential part of a happy, healthy life is being of service to others.
The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.
The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.
I had to restrain myself from buying a book on 19th-century fruit knives.
I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.
I had to bring the idea of journalistic distance to writing about myself.
Stop buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't even like.
I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal.
Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.
The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.
BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.
To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.
I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff
Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.
Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost.
Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault.
There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.
I have always loved octopuses. No sci-fi alien is so startlingly strange.
Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.
It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do."
Your play account is also designed to strengthen your "receiving" muscle.
Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.
You'll be surprised what someone is able to handle given no other choice.
When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.
We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.
And who cares what anyone here thinks? Enjoy life. No one gets out alive.
Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.
It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down.
Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.
The best research is the research that you don't know that you are doing.
I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.
It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad
You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?
History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it
Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.
There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat
When you recognize the angels, you have come to know God in your own way.
Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
Intergrity is not only teh way one thinks but even moer the way one acts.
Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.