How - Quotes
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad - but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can`t even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I`m aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don`t have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift.
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them!
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
When you`re a grown-up, you take it for granted that things are going to change no matter how much you try to maintain the status quo [...]. It`s only when you`re a teenager that you talk about change constantly and believe in your heart that it never really happens.
There are lots of things in life that are like riding a bike, but writing short stories isn't one of them. You can forget how.