School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.
We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.
I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing in life, really. And I think we are all striving for it in different ways. I also believe very, very strongly that everybody is the heroheroine of hisher own life. I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.
If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
A Cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second Coming of Christ; who frequently attends Bible studies; who has a high level of financial giving to a Christian cause; who home schools his children; who has accumulated survival foods and has a strong belief in the 2nd Amendment, and who distrusts Big Government.
. . . after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.
Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation