“My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” - I was very proud of that answer.”
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“My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, 'Just wait.”
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“I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.”
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“In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don’t insist on your rights, don’t blame each other, don’t judge or condemn each other, don’t find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive each other every day from the bottom of your hearts…”
― Letters and Papers from Prison
― Letters and Papers from Prison
“time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.”
― Letters and Papers from Prison
― Letters and Papers from Prison
Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
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