We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.
If the Christian doesn't get reality right, he loses effectiveness in this life. If the non-Christian doesn't get reality right, he loses much in this life, and everything and the next one. As Jesus put it, "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?"
Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.
MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.