Nothing can go wrong in this world but yourself ; and you can go wrong only by getting into the wrong mental attitude.
Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.
If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.
To love is to be afraid. You are frightened, deathly terrified, that something will happen to those you love. Think of the possibilities. Does your heart clench with each thought? That, my friend, is love. And love enslaves us all, for you cannot have love without fear.
Clouds suit my mood just fine.
All it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist
It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.
Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation at the universe then--and Luke, now--that was just the kind of comfort I needed. "I'm such a mess," I said. "We're almost off the island and I didn't even ask you where you were going. " He shrugged. "No place. Wherever you are.
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.
I speak to God every day.