Everyone can use a little beauty.
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
My vocation to preach on paper.
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.
When reviewing my novel Dreams of the Compass Rose for the Magazine of F&SF, master fantasist Charles de Lint called it "engaging and resonant, creating a new mythology that feels so right one might be forgiven for thinking that it's the cultural heritage of some forgotten country or people that have been lost to history. " This of course I take as the highest compliment, since it was indeed my sincere intent.
I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.
May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.