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But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which we have no control; it is any wonder then, that we are reduced to creating ingenious but bizarre liturgies designed to give us the illusion that we are powerful after all, just as every other primitive community has done when faced with a deep and apparently impenetrable mystery?

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)

The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.