My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.