A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
We are minor in everything but our passions.
we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.
I read Dad's books like I did before, now things are crystal clear. Lock the door in the bathroom, now I just can't get caught in here.
Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!
From now on I hope Always to stay Alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.
I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.