Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.
Marty, my mother used to say "Never get greedy with God." I think what she meant was "Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need."
When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; an...
Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows.
My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.
Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.
And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief. "Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose. I wanted to keep others from wasting their time pursuing the Word...
The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.
There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir.
Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.
THIS IS A COMPLIMENT? You're incrediburgable she said which is to say You're a little like incredible but a lot more like a hamburger.
Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.
A written retirement plan provides an evolving foundation of social purpose and direction for personal growth.
The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us.
Wonder feeds our best intelligence and is perhaps its source.
He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exulta...
