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"You want to achieve your dreams early, right? I know of only one back door; that's HARDWORK. Only few people use that entrance so the advantage is that there is no or less traffic there!"

"You multiply your life when you invest it."

"Christians are becoming disengaged in following the Scripture that tells us not to conform to the world's system."

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."

"The person who will end up enjoying success, is the one who planned for it and who knew why they are seeking to succeed."

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

"You play the game to the end. That's how it works, play to the end."

"We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions."
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"The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye."

"My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have."

"I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success."

"You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable."

"My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten."

"I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."

"I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes."

"People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy."
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