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"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
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"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."

"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."

"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."

"If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future."

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."

"If you're planning on quitting, first make sure it's not for one of these reasons: Fear, Discomfort,Anger,Self-pity,Someone's negative opinions,Past failures,Unrealistic expectations."

"Nothing external to you has any power over you."

"A man is what he thinks about all day long."

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
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"You boys going to get somewhere, or just going?" We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question."

"I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future."

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."

"He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows staring on seas of rooftops and the glitter of winter nights when home lights brownly wave beneath the heater whiter blaze of stars--those stars that in the North, in the clear nights, all hang frozen tears by the billions, with January Milky Ways like silver taffy, veils of frost in the stillness, huge blinked, throbbing to the slow beat of time and universal blood."

"Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind."
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