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I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
But flowers feed our soul in a different way. They remind us of a God who creates beautiful things and takes notice of the tiniest detail
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.
You will enjoy the TV and radio forecast much more if you stop taking it as advice and simply treat it as a short poem about the weather.
You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.
It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
Christians have a dual citizenship - on earth and in heaven - and our citizenship in heaven ought to make us better people here on earth.
Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.
Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.
It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.
The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous."
Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.
The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new text.
I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.
Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it.
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
Your fey cousin here has the miraculous ability to hold his liquor--and mine, and yours, and the king's, and half the country's, I expect.
No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.
The traveling heart went free / With endless streams; that strife was stopped; / And down a thousand vales I dropped, / I flowed to Italy.
[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.
I've never enjoyed a course or training as much as this. I feel inspired, energised and more focussed about my teaching and career future.
For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.
In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it."
The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.