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"I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble."
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"You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God."

"Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine."

"Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification."

"Success is in direct proportion to the level of consistency in the application of the daily disciplines and actions required."

"Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow."

"Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being."

"I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold."

"Working to perfect our gift and overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move on to our dreams."

"If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment."

"You must work for grace and favor to work for you."
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"You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope."

"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss."

"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think."

"Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them."

"We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society."

"One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist."

"We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world."

"I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble."
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