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"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way."
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"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."

"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."

"A saw by itself holds no value, but when coupled with your labor can clear forests."

"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot, reading is the creative center of a writer's life, you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."

"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."

"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."
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"Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!"

"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up."

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"If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities."

"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."

"You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities."
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