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Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within.

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so...

Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.

"I've had enough adventures," said Noxon, "to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Boredom means that there's nothing wrong. You're not hungry, you're not in pain. Nobody's making any...

The ancestral voices were prophesying war because ancestral voices never shut up, and they hate to be wrong, and war is a sure thing, sooner or later.

Different function is a function of different system

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optimism.

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that whereas women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men - great men - must build monuments and seek fame?

The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to...

"Surely you can entrust your task to your friends." "No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice." "If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up...

I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive it straight through his heart... But that's on a good day... when I purr and feel...

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.

Our soul and the sky and the earth are enough for us. Wanting more is to lose this and to be unhappy.

It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.

It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why...

Lately whenever I'd scratched somebody's surface I'd turned up a ghost story.

It's a way of living with tragedy, I guess, to claim after it happens that you saw it coming, as if somehow you had already made the necessary adjustments beforehand.

I can adapt my game to anyone, whether it's Ric Flair, Chris Benoit, or Batista.

These ideas might have been expected to draw fire from Hubbert's employer - he had become second-in-command at a big Shell Oil research center in Houston. But they attracted little notice until 1956

What bullshit excuses do you have for not going after whatever it is that you want? Please

Honestly, what good is owning a castle if the person you love doesn't want to share it with you?

As you and I take Personal Responsibility for mending the things that are out of order in our community and nation in general, we would surely witness a transformed, developed and civilized society.

Unlike their brethren in the Holy Land, Diaspora Jews spoke Greek, not Aramaic: Greek was the language of their thought process, the language of their worship.

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.