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I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.
If you think the products don't match what you want from a product, don't buy it.
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.
It takes but one person, one moment, one conviction, to start a ripple of change.
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.
Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.
When you always want the next thing, every human being becomes a means to an end.
The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be.
The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.
You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.
I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore".
The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.
...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.
I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.
Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.
Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.
There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God.
If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.
Y2K has challenged a belief in digital technology that has been almost religious.
The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface.
Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.
I believe that you have to live a life that involves both courage and compassion.
We need to protect every life and that we need to defend the lives of the unborn.
Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.