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True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.
If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.
This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.
Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it.
One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.
If a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it's jewelry.
When you look up. Do you see the blue sky of what might be? Or the darkness of what will never be? Do you see me?
Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.
And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.
From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts.
The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.
It's because when we sneeze, our soul flies out our nose and if no one says 'bless you,' the devil can snatch it.
Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains.
I love presidential campaigns. It is a time when people are feeling what is going on in the heart of our country.
We've got to pass legislation which will allow people to have access to competent counsel no matter who they are.
Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?
Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?
Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.
Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.
profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.
Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead." "Ding dong, the witch is dead.
There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.
being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.
It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.
Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.
Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.
I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.
Love is like the measles; the older you are when it hits you, the harder it takes. Cheer up, you won't die of it.
Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.
By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich
War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.
I gave 738 Rotary Club speeches, and it was just driving me crazy, so someone said, 'Why don't you charge money?'
But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.
People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.