All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something. . . . My theory is a children's book. . . can be just for fun.
Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
The only lesson is, you gotta keep at it.
There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in modern times: the love of nature, the love of animals, the sense of social compassion, the sense of the spiritual dangers of affluence.
Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.
I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.
Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.