I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.
I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.
Just before bedtime prayers, evaluate each day. Make plans for tomorrow that will move you toward your long-range goal. Strive for a close partnership with God in making your dreams come true.
We have all had times. . . when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. . . . [I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.
Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging a huge, incommodious and appallingly heavy bag with them, in pursuit of a tiny and fantastically expensive ball, in a fanatical attempt to direct it into a hole the size of a beer glass half a mile away. If anything could be better calculated to convince one of the essential lunacy of the human race, I haven't found it.
If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.