It’s a good thing that the sheep are all so law abiding
Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything. Or he believes in one thing at a time. He believes a second thing only if it somehow follows from the first thing. He is nearsighted and met...
And Jabim is the Lord of broken things, who sitteth behind the house to lament the things that are cast away. And there he sitteth lamenting the broken things until the worlds be ended, or until someone cometh to mend the broken things. Or sometimes ...
Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging ri...
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean ...
God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to ch...
One of the things that's been nice about my career is that I've been able to do so many different things, and variety keeps your creative soul fulfilled. I'm constantly looking to find new things to do. It's just project to project for me. You never ...
Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had told me were just the natural way things were, the way things always would be, they weren’t natural at all. They were things that could be changed, and...
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Father to teenage son: "My relationship with you is more important than anything I've got to say to you.
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance
What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
Don't ever underestimate the importance of treating others with respect and kindness.
It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.
What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.
Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it?
It's far more important why is being said, than what.
The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.
The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.
Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.
