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"I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

"It can be a beautiful experience to look for the magic that is hidden within the realm of our lives, but let's not let the process blind us to the majesty that is right in front of us."

"Your life is a reflection. you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it."
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"But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity."


"I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being."


"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."


"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."


"I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so."


"As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents."


"A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another."
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