I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.
After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.
Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.
Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.
Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks. ”'
. . . it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F. D. R. used the phrase earlier.
Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.
Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.
My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.