I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life!
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.
When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.
People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment. . . What kind of prayer would we use?
California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.