What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.
It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you - - don't you think?
Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.
It is not Love that is the crime and it is not Love that is the sin. It is the absence of it!
My dad liked to say that magic itself is never black; only the uses to which it is put, but mind magic is already tinted a deep, dark gray.
Nothing is unreal as long as you can imagine like a crow
I believe the uncertain times are almost upon us, and they are much more uncertain than I imagined.
Many men wait all their lives for the opportunity to be good in their own way.
I ask myself, who do I trust? Then I answered, No - one
God is the only book that can never be touched, open and seen.
The space between between breaths is measured in moments. But the space between Truths..? Lifetimes.
Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.
Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds, and events which passed as a perfect void to...
So many people concentrate on looks, but the invisible is sacred
"People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we string them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how...
I embrace, I veritably hug and cuddle, the concept of optimism. It is the core of my approach to my existence.
I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can.
The emotional pattern seems to be something like, "{Karl} Polanyi, a person of the left like me, says many true things, beautifully. Therefore his tales about what happened in economic history must be...
If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence - - and punishes those who do.
Sometimes, your future is already set, and there is nothing you can do about it. There are some things you just can't change, no matter how hard you work. Unfair, don't you think? It isn't an easy...
Doubt is the act of challenging our beliefs. . . . This is an active, investigative doubt: the kind that inspires us to wander onto shaky limbs or out into left field; the kind that doesn't divide the...
The creative mind plays with the object it loves.
I create, therefore I am.
It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they...
Can you hear Destiny laugh as she tiptoes toward you? Destiny is heartless.
The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
Those who think fate is against them have already crucified themselves. They have already decided what fate should do with them
Simplicity comes at a cost; the rich can't stand for, forget affording.
You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain.
Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one's true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.