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"Don't fear uniqueness. Fear similarities and acceptance. Create a new trend by defining yourself."

"Education is all a matter of building bridges."

"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake."

"For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state."

"Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold."

"Healing occurs in the present, not the past. We're not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we'e not giving in the present. There's a lot of talk today about people growing up in dysfunctional homes, but who didn't grow up in a dysfunctional home? This world is a dysfunction. However, there's nothing we've been through or seen or done that cannot be used to make our lives more valuable now. We can grow from any experience, and we can transcend any experience."

"There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny."

"Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of contact with the Father, with joy and peace, fear and love full to the fingertips in their turn, without incessant drawing of lessons and making of rules?"

"Sometimes the best way is to get out of your own way."

"Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change."

"Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost."

"Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority spending time with other believers is."

"Character and attitude deficiencies are piercing thorns depending your handhold."

"You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin."

"The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams."

"Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument."


"The qualities of a successful man are tenacity, perseverance, courage and the will to win."


"Every assignment has a natural and supernatural aspect."

"Most physical battles begin once mental ones have been lost, anyway. Conquer the mind, conquer the body."


"I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out."

"It would be so nice if something made sense for a change."


"So,' he says. 'When's the big day? Have you set a date yet?''What?' I startle. 'For what?''For the day you're going to stop being such a dumbass,' he says shooting me a sharp look.'Oh.' I cringe. Kick at the air. 'Yeah, that'll probably never happen.''Yeah, you're probably right.''Shut up."

"Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind."

"Where we come from... is not nearly as startling as where we are going."

"A relationship is a process. If you have nothing to learn - you have a slave to teach. 's why schools are effective."

"A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands."

"Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you."

"I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz."

"Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone?You called me and I answered."

"Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back."

"You become mature when you become the authority of your own life."

"Reading is awsome."

"Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory."
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