She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.

if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.

Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

You can't conceive the perverse ingenuity he could put into hiding his affections.

For you the guy should be the one who will look like the God among the guys.

We are all goofs of ourselves no matter how perfect the lives of some may seem. But when we embrace our flaws and work with it, sometimes, just sometimes, we get it right.

Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need.

Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.

Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.

Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.

We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

I feel lucky that I didn't have to give up music in exchange for getting clean. I wouldn't recommend that anyone else continue to DJ while they're getting clean.

An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.