The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.
Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.
None so deaf as those that will not hear.
Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.