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"God always has fresh ideas."


"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them."

"The old resists the new one.'Change hurts' is the reason."

"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character."

"The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff."

"Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own."

"You have grace to live your dreams."

"I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It's as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get."

"People think that there is a country there that these people are only around when they are on CNN. I don't think that's limited to Haiti."


"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them."


"In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."

"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."

"That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding."

"Sometimes when you are falling down, you grow wings to fly."

"Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul."

"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible."

"Desire activates the potential that was coined within you. You cannot unleash your potential without stepping up your desire to succeed..."


"Fight against illiteracy."

"No" works just fine as a complete sentence. You don't have to explain yourself.I said no, then stopped talking."

"Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious."

"You know, he said. "I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do. There was silence, in the high place."

"The law works in mysterious ways."

"Rewards are not simply given, they are earned. Each of your trials and tribulations increases your reward. You are destined for success and greatness beyond measure. So smile to increase your endurance and laugh in the face of adversity."


"He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped."

"My life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I have the next moment."


"It is the tale, not he who tells it."


"Time is not rigid. It is destructible. It melts away before you know it."
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