"I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has taken away nothing of my own. Mother, my roof is the stars. My house is human goodness. My body is clothed. My stomach is full. And the thirstier part of me, my soul, drinks gladly from the pool of my books.So much for me. I am just fine."

-- Walter Wangerin

#Mother Quotes #Stars Quotes #Book Quotes

“There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocritesâ€”conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, itâ€™s all the same.”
“Many writers hate the shilling process, and I understand that. However, it's really the only thing about the publication process you can somewhat control. You can't affect reviews. But you can try to find your book an audience. One of the problems with the book publishing industry is that their publicity efforts tend to be spent on people who already read, and know how to discover, literary fiction.”
“For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.”
“I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.”

Source : "Amos Lee sings of love, loss and hope". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2011.
“There is never a reason to lose hope. Jesus says: â€œI am with you until the end of the world.”
“I'm actually scared of horror movies. I'm kind of Scaredy Cat when it comes to that stuff.”
“Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove.”
“People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual grip, the things that are inborn and cannot be taught, are everything.”

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