When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.
Love and a red rose can't be hid.
The past is only a guidepost. . . not a hitching post.
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell. ' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One. ' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.