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You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.
Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.
I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.
Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.
In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.
Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.
I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.
A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write.
Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.
What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.
If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.
Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
You know, back in the day, when a guy saved a Princess's life, she would reward him with a kiss.
We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.
The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid.
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.
I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.
Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.'
In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.
Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.
It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.
Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.
Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.
The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.
Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.
I'm not very disciplined. I tend to write late at night because I get distracted during the day.
Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.
...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.
They say that adultery is the main thing that can damage a marriage, but it's not. It's boredom.
I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.
The angels of God are bright and shining beings, emanating light and mirroring the glory of God.
I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal's physical health problems by listening to the animals.
There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.