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In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.
Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.
I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.
That's a horrible plan." "Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that.
Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.
Love is the soul of every life of prayer and of every good work.
With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.
The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.
I consider myself an aware person who is sensitive to injustice.
Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
You'd better know what you want, because you'll probably get it.
When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.
Stones are raw, they blunt my paw, but words will never hurt me.
I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family.
Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.
Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.
We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.
The response to stress is not less time in God's Word, but more.
There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.
If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind
The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.
We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter.
I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.
It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.
Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
If I've done anything I'm sorry for, I'm willing to be forgiven.
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you