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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.
Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.
A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.
Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions.
When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!
People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what's deeper.
The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.
Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.
Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge
The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though
A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.
Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...
People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.
A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon
Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.
I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Those who say the Rosary daily and wear the Brown Scapular and who do a little more, will go straight to Heaven.
All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other
Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.
People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.
Xmas Trivia: Before it became a major shopping holiday, Christmas is believed to have had a "religious" meaning.
You can return all the Christmas gifts you want, but you will never get back the time spent with your relatives.
Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Give a man Twitter, and he will forget to eat and starve to death.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
I've learned... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.
I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.