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Quotes by Author
"We begin to learn wisely when we're willing to see world from other people's perspective."
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"I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes."
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"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them."
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"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations."
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"The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two."
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"Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness."
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"Sometimes I reach the highest heights of hope, at other times I reach the deepest of despair. Sometimes I am happy, at other times I am sad. At some point I am a believer, and at some other time an unbeliever. Sometimes I love, some other times I hate. That's what it means to be human."
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"For awhile, I was left with nothing on the physical plane. I had no relationships, no job, no home, no socially defined identity. I spent almost two years sitting on park benches in a state of the most intense joy."
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"We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over. Our war aim is a world in which Our Father Below has drawn all other beings into himself: the Enemy wants a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct."
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"I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time."
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"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."
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"Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal."
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"Every gift, talent and every calling that you have from God has been given to you because somebody needs it."
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops."
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"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking."
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"The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects."
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"Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale."
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"An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness."
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"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'"
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"Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal."
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"We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely."
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"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."
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"I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children."
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"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
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"I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity."
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"When all the trees have been cut down and all the animals have been hunted to extinction, when all the waters are polluted and the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money."
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"Darkness is subject to light, and can never manifest itself in the presence of light."
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"Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us."
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"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
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"Christmas is a celebration of Christ love for Humankind. And the love that bind us together as sacred family."
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"What Writing Is: Telepathy, of course."
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"Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it."
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"Belane, are you nuts?"Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?"
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"A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn't help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions."
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