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"In the pursuit of goals, you cannot give up anytime you feel uncomfortable."

"You will reap tomorrow what you are sowing today."

"Consistency is the belt that fastens excellence in position. If you don't do it repeatedly, you'll not excel in it."

"Every big castle was once started with a single block, despise no small beginnings. A little step taken every day builds up the hope of greater accomplishments. Do something every day!"
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"It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it."

"Though I've never met a teacher who was not happy in retirement, I rarely meet one who thinks that their teaching life was not a grand way to spend a human life. The unhappy ones are the young ones, those who must teach in public schools when the whole nation seems at war with the very essence of teaching."

"In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice."

"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"

"The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man."

"From the beginning, I've told journalists that I planned to write better than any writer of my era who graduated from an Ivy League college. It sounds boastful and it is. But The Citadel taught me that I was a man of courage when I survived that merciless crucible of a four-year test that is the measure of The Citadel experience. I'm the kind of writer I am because of The Citadel."

"You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world."
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