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Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.
Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.
Sorry is for the things you've done that you shouldn't have not for things you believe in.
I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.
The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it.
In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there’s always a geek.
If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.
I’m taking off my shoes.’’ ‘‘Fine. Shoes off.’’ ‘‘And my pants.’’ ‘‘Don’t push it, Claire.
Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.
You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.
A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.
I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.
The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.
Love is appreciating, complimenting, feeling gratitude, and speaking good words to others.
I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten
That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.
That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.
Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.
I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination.
I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator.
You have to have confidence in where you're going. Don't live and die by the fans' tweets.
Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.
The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly.
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.
In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats
My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic.
You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
it is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.
I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man.
I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.