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The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.
E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.
There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.
Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.
Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.
Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!
We either get success or lessons. If we learn our lessons successfully, we get both.
Mind severed from body, culture from planet- to lose our ground is to lose our home.
Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.
Please don't believe everything you hear about me, regardless of how true it may be.
Even if you're not enjoying the flight, it's futile to threaten to get out and walk.
If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.
Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction
I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.
By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving
Some people can find all the peace of mind they need in a good, satisfying conflict.
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.
I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever.
Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
When it comes to investing, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all portfolio.
A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
If you can't feel then why did you kiss me? Because I can feel it here, in my heart.
All is pattern, all life, but we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it.
My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
The Universe knows what it's doing. So don't develop a big ego, and don't be afraid.
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'
People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.
South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.
The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.
What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don't remain a novice.
You can redefine your external world by an internal experience with the love of God.
Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything.
Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.
O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!
Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.
It's not better to give than to receive. It's insane to try to give and not receive.
Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both