There aint but one truth, said John Grady. The truth is what happened. It aint what come out of somebody's mouth.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

Stephen King

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative success mechanism within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower.

Maxwell Maltz

Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.

Florida Scott Maxwell

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

Marya Mannes

I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

Dwight L. Moody

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

Orson Welles

From labor health, from health contentment springs.

Melody Beattie

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Seamus Heaney

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch