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"Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be. I notice when the sky is blue. I smile down at children. I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor. I quietly carry the burdens of others as though they were my own. And I say 'I'm sorry' when you don't. I am not without fault, but I am not without goodness either."
"My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres."
"If there is any solace to be found in the carnage of September 11th, may I find it in understanding that the potential to do great good can handily rival the tendency to carry out great evil. And out of that understanding may I commit in my own life to make certain that in such a critical rivalry I will ensure that towers will never fall because of me, but people will be raised up due to me."
"We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds."
"I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us."
"Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad."
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