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At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.
Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.
Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams.
It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
The way we behave toward people indicates what we really believe about God.
Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?
To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.
Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors.
Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.
Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it's in there.
I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam.
When it comes to God's commands, the issue is not clarity; it's commitment.
I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
I don't go to the openings of shops or parties given by people I don't know.
Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.
I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.
To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.
You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth.
Enjoy your life today because yesterday had gone and tomorrow may never come
Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.
There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.
Let light and love and power and death fulfil the purpose of the Coming One.
I do have friends in Pittsburgh, and I had some wonderful experiences there.
In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.
I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.
The most wonderful and amazing people are those, who are true to themselves.
Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.
Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.
No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own.
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.