The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

As long as we were living in the spirit we would continue to be blessed

... ancient days of sorrowancient days of pain-heartaches of the pastslowly began to wane ...(from gleaning granules)

we can only flourish when we are truly grounded in self. keep that in mind when journeying.

There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.

I don't consider myself a very religious person in any.

To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.