TODAY IS NATIONAL PEACE DAY.
H. G. WELLS 1866-1946. “WAR OF THE WORLDS””The Time Machine” “The Invisible Man” “The Magic Shop””Country of the Blind”
WHAT REALLY MATTERS IS WHAT YOU DO WITH WHAT YOU HAVE.
WE MUST NOT ALLOW the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
SOMETIMES, you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.
LOSING your way on a journey is unfortunate. but, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
THE CRISIS OF TODAY IS THE JOKE OF TOMORROW.
LET YOUR LOVE BE STRONGER than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
OUR TRUE NATIONALITY IS MANKIND.
THERE IS NO UPPER LIMIT to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.
THE MAN WHO RAISES A FIST HAS RUN OUT OF IDEAS.
CIVILIZATION is a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
AM I DREAMING? HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD — OR HAVE I?
WHEN a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.
IF YOU FELL DOWN YESTERDAY, STAND UP TODAY.
Advertising is legalized lying.
AFFLICTION comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
FIND THE THING you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done.
MORAL INDIGNATION IS JEALOUSY WITH A HALO.
ONCE YOU LOSE YOURSELF, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.
THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE IS THE PATH OF THE LOSER.
IF ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, THEN NOTHING IS INTERESTING.
IT is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
IF THE WORLD does not please you, you can change it.
HE WHO DOES NOT CONTEMPLATE THE FUTURE is destined to be overwhelmed by it.
THERE’S TRUTHS YOU HAVE TO GROW INTO.
GOOD BOOKS ARE THE WAREHOUSES OF IDEAS.
ADAPT OR PERISH, NOW AS EVER, IS NATURE’S INEXORABLE IMPERATIVE.
THERE IS NO MORE EVIL THING IN THIS WORLD than race prejudice, none at all. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any sort of error in the world.
ENDLESS CONFLICTS. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.
WILL IS STRONGER THAN FACT: IT CAN MOLD AND OVERCOME FACT.
IF YOUR LIFE DOESN’T END IN FAILURE, you haven’t reached high enough. So it was failure I have to achieve.
CHRIST is the most unique person in history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.
IF WE DON’T END WAR, WAR WILL END US.
BEAUTY IS IN THE HEART OF THE BEHOLDER.
WE ARE KEPT KEEN ON THE GRINDSTONE OF PAIN AND NECESSITY.
THE GREATEST TASK OF DEMOCRACY, ITS RITUAL AND FEAST — IS CHOICE.
STEPHEN KING 1947. “IT’. “CARRIE”. “MISERY”. “THE STAND”.
FEAR CAN HOLD YOU PRISONER. HOPE CAN SET YOU FREE.
PEOPLE CAN BE STUNNINGLY UNOBSERVANT.
WHAT IS WRITING? WRITING IS TELEPATHY.
HEARTS ARE TOUGH, most times they don’t break. most times they only bend.
MONSTERS ARE REAL, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us and sometimes they win.
WHAT DARWIN was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
TO WRITE IS HUMAN, TO EDIT IS DIVINE.
THE SCARIEST MOMENT IS ALWAYS JUST BEFORE YOU START.
WE LIE BEST WHEN WE LIE TO OURSELVES.
THE TRUTH IS IN THE DETAILS.
A SUCCESSFUL NOVEL should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.
LOVE ISN’T SOFT, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS ARE THE HARDEST TO SAY.
WHEN IT COMES TO THE PAST, EVERYONE WRITES FICTION.
DESCRIPTION begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
NO GOOD FRIENDS, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.
IF FEAR CANNOT BE ARTICULATED, IT CAN’T BE CONQUERED.
THE DEVIL’S VOICE IS SWEET TO HEAR.
ONLY ENEMIES SPEAK THE TRUTH; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
SOMETIMES there is no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
DON’T GIVE ME WHAT I ASK FOR, GIVE ME WHAT I NEED.