the matured understands mistakes as a necessary growth path to maturity
Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.
your glory determines your haters
History was always buried deep, even when you know where to look. And it was hard to excavate it without damaging it. Brushes and cotton swabs, not chisels and pickaxes. Slow work. You had to like doing it.
That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like a peepshow; with two-dimensional figures against a distant background.
Whatever betterment we have today was carved out of a world of stone by men of the hammer, not men of hope.
Hurrying on, Barbee nodded to the workman as casually as he could. His skin felt goose-pimpled under the thin red robe, and he couldn't help shivering to a colder chill than he felt in the frosty air. For the quiet city, it seemed to him, was only a ...
Grant had dealt too long with the human intelligence to accept as truth someone's report of someone's report of what that someone remembered to have seen or been told.
They served to remind Cabal - should a reminder ever be necessary - why his social skills were so poor: people were loathsome and not worth the practise.
So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency.
Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time
Ignore ignorance. The ultimate way to deal with men with ignorant mentality who are ignorance of your purpose on earth is to ignore their ignorance; capitalize on their ignorance and let them appreciate your purpose in awe and admiration
if you cannot ponder to wonder, you will always wonder to ponder
Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists.
Barbee had always wondered about mental institutions. He thought of taking notes for a feature story on this adventure at Glennhaven, as the evening wore on, began to seem remarkable for utter lack of anything noteworthy. It began to appear as a frag...
Books may be irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading
the essence of life is embedded in time and timing. Many pilgrims of life will finish spending their time before they will come to the realization of the usefulness and essence of time and timing
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.
Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself.
Kissing's a lot like laughing. If the joke's funny, it doesn't matter how long it's been since you last heard one.
