These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.
Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.
Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.
One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?
Information is power. --Humfrey
My wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multicultural.
There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.
People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.
Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.