Typecasting is a good thing. It's good to be known for what you do.
My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children d...
Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job--one of the most important. Your job is to le...
The quality common to the three experiences... is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasu...
Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it it very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that ...
As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with g...
I'm having a good time watching Shooter. He's a good kid. He's been a good son to me. He has never failed.
Give good and get good.
Good is good, but better beats it.
A bad man talks about what he has eaten and drunk -- a good man about what he has seen and heard.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
There is a good life. The goodnews is that you can live that good life. The good life is the happy life. To live this good life, be happy! A truly happy man is a good man.
Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
Good Person, Good Words and Good Action are independent, wisdom lies in recognizing each of this good irrespective of other one or two being not Good.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it.
On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.
Emotions are like a virus, a common cold, disrupting the flow of logic in people's minds.
We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.
Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.
