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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular ...

It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

The meals we remember are the ones we have with others, not the TV.

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

Remind me why I'm doing this again?" I whispered back."For your real friends, of course: Me, Caleb, and Chad.""That's sweet of you to say, but ...

Each of us is accountable to God for our personal holiness. Humbling yourself by letting others into your life and allowing them to help you ...

Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars.

I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.

I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That's the way I've always been.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they ...

The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and ...

I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'

I don't direct the plays of others.

When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's ...

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the ...

Every saved soul was a pebble into the stream that was my broken heart. I threw every pebble in and hoped the water would dam, ...

Life doesn't always give us a choice between right and wrong. Occasionally, we are forced to choose between two rights or two wrongs...

And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.

I have three sons, and the oldest wants to play pirates all the time. It has all these associations of living some kind of very ...

We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. ...

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such ...

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success.

It's not good enough to just know what to say about the policy; it's really important to take the extra step to learn the policy, ...

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a ...

Filling ourselves and living with the energy of love feels wonderful. And because this energy resonates at a high vibrational level, it also attracts into ...

I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.

'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any ... I hope this will be the last one for a long while.

Diets - the ultimate empty promise perpetuating the same cycle over and over again. We've all been victims of yo-yo dieting. We stick to some ...

Develop your characters well enough that they do stupid things on their own.

I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in order to figure ...

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

All this national decay, all this weakening of the state, this obviously imminent subjection of Judah to Babylon, were, it seemed to Jeremiah, Yahveh's hand ...

[Editorial cartooning] is essentially a destructive art. We are not pontificators, or molders of thought - or at least we shouldn't try to be. Ours ...

Cormac drove. He eyed me in the rearview mirror. Anyone you want me to beat up?

Of course, love has no respect for questionnaires. As The Rosie Project tells us.

I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining ...

Faith plus action equals transformation.

Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your ...

Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up

If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.

I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

You're getting your weird all over me.

If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue!

Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how ...

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may ...

Growing up in the 80's, I think a lot of us saw things that were "new," an experience we don't get too much of these ...

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl ...

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

I remember the feel and smell and taste of him. Heat and wood smoke and sunrise, but no longer. Cal smells like blood, his skin ...

You may have learned from your mother or any other hunted woman. Smiling at devils is a useful learned thing. Swallowing discomfort down in spades. ...

Also, human groups are formed of highly flexible alliances, not just among family members but between families, genders, classes, and tribes. The bonding is based ...

The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there.

Be helpful - even if there's no immediate profit in it.

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

To have thought that, with the right tests and the right lectures, I could be made into a cold-blooded, heartless killer. To have thought that ...

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

ADD has turned into a catchall for all childhood misbehavior. When a student's failing in class, or he gets into mischief,

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results ...

Everybody goes through divorces. There's millions of people that have drinking problems. There's people that their weight goes up and down, just like mine. It's ...

Tommy was tall and wide-hipped, but Mills couldn't tell what kind of body lay underneath the black T-shirt and jeans, what kind of person, what ...

In the instant Miu touched her hair, Sumire fell in love, like she was crossing a field and bang! a bolt of lightning zapped her ...

These were the beginnings of a new existence; Winkler could feel it gestating.

We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my ...

Times have changed. The athletes have changed.

Mortals fantasied that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal.

One of the reasons so many people fail is they get on this treadmill for an hour or an hour and a half. That's totally ...

God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our ...

Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so ...

You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence.

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from ...

Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like ...

The dewy night unrolls a heaven thickly jewelled with sparkling stars

As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change.

It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.

I spent eighteen days entirely in widening and deepening my cave,

Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, ...

My heart broke when he died, split in half and fell down into my stomach or somewhere deep and muddy, and I'm still not sure ...

The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?

Standing behind him until he turned his head. Lying next to him just before he woke up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and ...

Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no ...

'Hatfields & McCoys' is a very profound statement in what happens when you're unable to let go of hatred and hurt and unable to have ...

Elite runners are genetically gifted, sure, but without intense training, those gifts are wasted. Their training creates a strong work ethic that leaves humility in ...

Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?

Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart.

It's just that life felt the right size in there ... not too big and not too small. Wasn't so hard to work up a ...

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

When nothing becomes the vocalThen nothing becomes the focalAnd nothing's becoming at all

Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and ...

Those whom God has mercy in store for he first brings into a wilderness.