This, I thought, was true love. Someone who made you happy without saying a word.
Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.
So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.
I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Yeah, you were doing a real bang-up job of it. I particularly liked the way you were bruising his fists with your face. A few minutes more and I’m sure your heart would have been on the attack. . . after it was ripped from your chest. (Kat)
Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
I think the past is something I have spent a lot of time thinking about, not only what is different about the past but what's the same, and what links us to the past.
I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.