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If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.
It's not only a matter of when to do things, but whether or not to do them at all.
Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem.
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair
Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.
As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
With too little judgement, we get trash. With too much judgement, we get blockage.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.
The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.
If you aren't working on your goals, you aren't working. You're just wasting time.
That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.
Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?
The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.
To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.
The greatest sense of love, which is available for us at all times, is God's love.
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.
It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it
Because my life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.
Waiting for my real life to start is no excuse to waste the life I have right now.
Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.
... now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there.
If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.
If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing.
All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit.
Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.
Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another."
We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.
The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.
Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?
There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail.
Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.
Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.
So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way.
I keep a night light on because my room is so full at night, I can't get to sleep!
Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.
My grandma's chicken soup is amazing: so simple, so full of flavour, and so yummy.
Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn.
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.
But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.
I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you.
Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.
Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.
The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.
Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They've got a mean streak.
There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.