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I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
I mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can.
Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.
Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.
You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.
A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.
The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...
Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.
I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
And the best way to quit being concerned with yourself is to be concerned about others.
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.
There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.
Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.
It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.
That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.
C'est courageux d'aller dans l'inconnu': It is courageous to go into territory unknown.
About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.
In the middle of L.A.'s sunny non-winter, I need to sit in a dark closet to feel right.
Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.
Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.
People don't want charities to usurp the state as the core provider of social services.
Franchising implies a financial arrangement, and I am always pleased to consider those.
Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.
If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.
The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.
Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.
Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
I found the road to wealth when I decided that a part of all I earned was mine to keep.
I'm always nice when I do drugs. But, you know, I'm nicer on the drug called "writing."
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.
there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .