No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God.

People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.

If you can't be good, be good at it!

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.

To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.

Officially, it is no more possible to be a little bit OCD than it is to be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.