If world peace is to be established, peace in the individual must be established first. Transcendental Meditation directly brings peace in the individual life.
Stories are equipment for living.
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his
Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.
We not only interpret the character of events. . . we may also interpret our interpretations.
Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.
The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.
That's how it always is with me: the thing that sets me down to start writing is usually not what I end up doing. Because, as much as I love genre, and I try to deliver the goods, I go off from it. I go do my own thing.
I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?