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You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.
The commitment to love always transforms, heals, and opens new avenues of creativity.
As your temptations become greater, so does your ability to make responsible choices.
there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.
I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
The Guardian,[is] one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world.
The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.
No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.
Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.
The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.
The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.
Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers).
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.
Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
Make bold moves toward your dreams each day, refuse to stop and nothing can stop you.
When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him.
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.
God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.
Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.
Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt.
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly.
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.
Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.
I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.
When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.
Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.
Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
The home is where part of the family waits until the others are through with the car.
He wondered if he might be in love, but realized it was far more likely he was dying.
Well, you show me the science [that being gay is not a choice] and I'll be persuaded.
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated.