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I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.
I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?
Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.
If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.
Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.
Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.
What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.
I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.
When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.
Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.
If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.
I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.
Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.
In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.
Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.
Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.
And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.
Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
You can waste your whole life trying to be everything to everybody. Pick your passion. And let them pick theirs.
I think it was Mark Twain who said, “Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.
Kit, you're forty. You look thirty. You act...well, never mind. You're carrying on like you think you're seventy