"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has...."

-- Josh Billings

“For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.”
“It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.”
“I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.”
“The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.”
“We mustn't assume that we are going to deinvent government solely from inside the Beltway or within one or two sessions of Congress. We will do it one step at a time, in one community at a time - at the local level and through local institutions like churches, nonprofit and volunteer organizations and families.”
“I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~”
“But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered the elements of your craft, in the act of writing you will learn the rest of what you need to know in order to do justice to your subject.”
“Everything you do and every word you say can become a ministering seed. You can be a blessing to everyone with whom you come in contact.”

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